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Normally compression strategies mean poor performance trade-offs, but not here. SSMS 2008 also has a useful wizard to help us decide on the level of compression we can choose. SQL Server 2008 supports ...

Microsoft's latest relational database management system contains a host of new features, but are they enough to make you migrate? The wait is over. Microsoft has finally released SQL Server 2008, the ...

SQL Server 2008, aka “Katmai,” gives SQL Server shops plenty of reasons to get excited. The best SQL Server release to date, it sports more nice new features than you can count, and the improvements ...

The Data Compression feature in SQL Server saves space at the Row level or the Page level. Row level compression looks for fixed data types that contain values that do not use the full width of the ...

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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 ...