September 2007 - Posts

• Data compression techniques and trade offs

  Ok, now that we have sort of agreed ( http://blogs.msdn.com/sqlserverstorageengine/archive/2007/09/30/data-compression-why-do-we-need-it.aspx ) that data compression is a good thing, you may wonder how SQL Server compresses the data, what does this compression Read More... Posted Sunday, September 30, 2007 7:55 AM by Sunil Agarwal | 7 Comments Filed under: Data Compression

• Data Compression: Why Do we need it?

  As announced in Tech-Ed 2007, data compression is a new and exciting feature targeted to be available in SQL Server 2008. This is a huge topic to be covered in one BLOG post, I have decided to break it into a series of posts, each building on the previous Read More... Posted Sunday, September 30, 2007 12:58 AM by Sunil Agarwal | 8 Comments Filed under: Data Compression