What is in this article?:
- 2012 SQL Server Pro Editors' Best and Community Choice Awards
- Best Backup and Recovery Product
- Best Business Intelligence/Reporting Product
- Best Database Development Product
- Best Database Management Product
- Best Database Monitoring and Performance Product
- Best Security/Auditing/Compliance Product
- Best Storage Hardware
- Best Free Tool
- Best Vendor Tech Support
- Funniest Server Names You've Seen
- Highest Number of SQL Server Systems You've Seen in One Environment
- The Number-One Thing You Should Never Do to a SQL Server System
- Your Favorite SQL Server Bloggers
Our annual SQL Server Pro Editors' Best and Community Choice award programs give us a unique way to recognize the hottest products on the market for the current year. Our Editors' Best program highlights products that SQL Server Pro editors and contributors believe are worthy of recognition, whereas our Community Choice program lets readers like you decide which products are the best. (View last year's winners at "2011 SQL Server Magazine Editors' Best and Community Choice Awards").
Our editors always face a challenge when choosing their Editors' Best favorites from such a competitive and multifaceted field. But we feel, as always, that this year's winners show an uncommon breadth of functionality and originality. As for Community Choice, we followed the same process as in previous years by opening up the Community Choice nomination process to all. We let you nominate your favorite products and services, built the voting survey from there, and let everyone participate in the final voting phase.
In these pages, you'll find our Gold, Silver, and Bronze Editors' Best winners in each category directly adjacent to your Community Choice winners. Sometimes our editors and readers have agreed on favorite products and services in a given category, but more often they haven't. Do you agree with the choices our editors have made? Or do the picks that our readers have made carry more weight? Let us know! Regardless of whether these winners were chosen by editors or readers, you can be sure that all these products are worthy of serious consideration if you're in the market for a new tool.
Our annual SQL Server Pro Editors' Best and Community Choice award programs give us a unique way to recognize the hottest products on the market for the current year. Our Editors' Best program highlights products that SQL Server Pro editors and contributors believe are worthy of recognition, whereas our Community Choice program lets readers like you decide which products are the best. (View last year's winners at "2011 SQL Server Magazine Editors' Best and Community Choice Awards").
Our editors always face a challenge when choosing their Editors' Best favorites from such a competitive and multifaceted field. But we feel, as always, that this year's winners show an uncommon breadth of functionality and originality. As for Community Choice, we followed the same process as in previous years by opening up the Community Choice nomination process to all. We let you nominate your favorite products and services, built the voting survey from there, and let everyone participate in the final voting phase.
In these pages, you'll find our Gold, Silver, and Bronze Editors' Best winners in each category directly adjacent to your Community Choice winners. Sometimes our editors and readers have agreed on favorite products and services in a given category, but more often they haven't. Do you agree with the choices our editors have made? Or do the picks that our readers have made carry more weight? Let us know! Regardless of whether these winners were chosen by editors or readers, you can be sure that all these products are worthy of serious consideration if you're in the market for a new tool.
- Best Backup and Recovery Product
- Best Business Intelligence/Reporting Product
- Best Database Development Product
- Best Database Management Product
- Best Database Monitoring and Performance Product
- Best Security/Auditing/Compliance Product
- Best Storage Hardware
- Best Free Tool
- Best Vendor Tech Support
- Funniest Server Names You've Seen
- Highest Number of SQL Server Systems You've Seen in One Environment
- The Number-One Thing You Should Never Do to a SQL Server System
- Your Favorite SQL Server Bloggers
