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If licensing and running on Windows would not be an issue, I'd choose SQL Server over Mysql any day.

I sort of would too... but then again PostgreSQL runs just fine in Windows.

I only have experience with SQL Server Express (my employer was still using their licensed copy of SQL Server 2000 when I got there in 2009). There are a lot of features I'd love to have that are missing from the free version such as replication and automation tools.

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