It would be a huge stretch to say Crystal Reports became an old dog hardly taught new tricks, but since Microsoft released its SQL Server Reporting Services developers faced with the need to choose between the default Crystal Reports and potentially more productive SSRS. Is there a real need to change horses in the midstream provided Crystal Reports has its own advantages too?

AlwaysOn technology in MS SQL Server is designed to increase the availability of your database, it is another step toward the fail-safe system. For the 1st time it appeared in MS SQL Server 2012 and was going to replace mirroring in future. But now we see both technologies in MS SQL Server 2014, which, of course, pleases.