Jun 7, 2013 · Does anyone happen to have a generic SQL statement that'll list all of the tables and indexes in a database, along with their current compression setting, for each partition? Thanks.

Jun 10, 2024 · This article describes how to enable data compression on an existing table or index in SQL Server by using SQL Server Management Studio or Transact-SQL. To enable data compression when creating a table or index, see the Create a compressed index and Creating a table that uses row compression examples.

Feb 18, 2020 · Data compression in SQL Server can definitely go a long way in saving storage space, as well as improve performance. It can especially be significant in very large databases. But in certain scenarios it can actually cause more harm than good, and it’s important to identify these scenarios.

May 12, 2008 · Page compression is a new feature available in Enterprise and Developer editions of SQL Server 2008. In this article, MAK discusses how to enable PAGE data compression on a table and...

Jan 5, 2015 · With these databases, I’ve seen some clients use compression for tables and indexes as an approach when facing size restrictions and it’s helpful to be able to obtain compression information quickly to either (1) compress tables and indexes that aren’t, or (2) compress a table or index, depending on its use and size.

Apr 3, 2018 · This article will describe SQL Server data compression and the SSMS Data Compression Wizard will be explained. The SQL Server data compression reduces the amount of physical disk space required to store data and the amount of disk I/O is saved by performing SQL Server data compression.

The scripts below will generate TSQL compression activation code for all or some of the tables and indexes in a database. They are provided in a form that will include all tables or indexes, but they can be easily customised by uncommenting and changing the provided 'AND' clauses.

Sep 1, 2021 · The compressed index has the advantage of better storage and lesser read of pages while retrieving data from it. Now if you have an index that was originally created without compression, you can still enable the compression when you rebuild the index.

Jan 30, 2024 · For rowstore tables and indexes, use the data compression feature to help reduce the size of the database. In addition to saving space, data compression can help improve performance of I/O intensive workloads because the data is stored in fewer pages and queries need to read fewer pages from disk.

Is there an easy way to enable compression on all these tables and indexes? Here is the script I ended up making from splattne's recommendation. where k.type = 'K' -- all keys. AND t.type = 'U' -- all user tables. I've just used the Works With SQL Server Tool to test after compressing using the a_hardin-splattne script.