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OK, so it’s one week to Christmas and I have to resort to a holiday theme of some sort. Things are a bit laid back this year. Our family has resorted to the Secret Santa thing to reduce the number of ...

Because a compressed backup is smaller than an uncompressed backup of the same data, compressing a backup typically requires less device I/O and therefore usually increases backup speed significantly.

Using compression with SSMS is just as easy. Simply set the compression option on the Options page of the Back up Database dialog. You may be asking yourself: How effective is this compression? The ...

FlashVols are volumes that are pinned in SSD so applications run at maximum performance without the potential delay due to caching algorithms or tiering policies. Combined with Tegile's de-duplication ...

Rowgroup quality is determined by the number of rows in a rowgroup. Increasing the available memory can maximize the number of rows a columnstore index compresses into each rowgroup. Use these methods ...