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 ...

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Learn how the SQL Server Database Engine implements row compression to help you plan the storage space that you need for your data. This topic summarizes how [!INCLUDEssDE] implements row compression.

BANGALORE, INDIA: Database backups and maintenance windows for very large database are very frustrating especially if we need to generate full database backups to initialize a database mirroring or ...