When deciding whether to use data compression in SQL Server, it's crucial to perform thorough testing and analysis on a representative workload. Our IT team implemented data compression on their ...

Row-level compression is a method that ... row-level or page-level compression to your SQL Server databases. Increased CPU overhead, altered data access, and varied compression results are common ...

This is an example of using Sql Server Data Tools and Visual Studio to build a .dacpac file. The .dacpac file allows for automated deployment via TFS or any other CI/CD tool. The other project ...

Performing (de)compression in the database will use database server CPU cycles (and MS license SQL Server per core remember) for something that could easily be moved to the application tier, and using ...

Here's what else is cool: You can change the default compression behavior of your entire server. On the Database Settings tab of the Server Properties dialog, you can select the option Compress Backup ...

Ever since Microsoft introduced SQL Server ... and store cold data to Azure Storage. The data will be stored in an open source file format named Parquet. It operates well with complex data in large ...