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📣 taway1982345

Are you using MSSQL at work, is it popular?


I was recently trying to figure out if MSSQL is still a widely used db and as a proxy i searched HN. It seems it's only mentioned in comments from time to time but very rarely an article specifically related to it (comparing to Postgres/mysql related articles). Is this specific to HN or is MSSQL just not that widely used outside big enterprises?

Are you are using it, what language do you use to develop applications against it? Is NodeJS/TS an option?

Asking because i was thinking of developing something like PostgREST/Hasura for MSSQL in TypeScript.

Do you think your company could need/use something like that?

  👤 KingOfCoders Accepted Answer ✓
We used MSSQL in one of my former CTO jobs for an data warehouse, but mostly because the finance department were Power Excel users, we used MySQL for the website.

Currently I'm using Postgres for my next startup [0]

[0] https://www.amazingcto.com/postgres-for-everything/

👤 viraptor
You won't find much on HN because historically MsSQL was windows-server only and that's a tiny fraction of small / start-up services using it. It's really common for windows-only shops. Almost any language can talk to it. And definitely any that supports odbc.