Nov 25, 2019 · Yes you can data compression to this table without dropping the primary key. With keeping all the options you mentioned, following script will compress the table.

Jul 31, 2017 · 5 I need to come up with the best approach possible to enable page compression on a table 1500 GB in size, with 363,957,740 rows. The database size itself is 1.71 TB and …

Aug 13, 2019 · The result is a table in which the data is compressed on the row level (smaller than an uncompressed table but larger than a page-compressed table), but inspecting the …

Sep 26, 2016 · Need to compress a giant table of 1.5TB in sql server 2008, which is the best option Page or row compression, please let me know the steps to do it.

Aug 3, 2023 · XML_COMPRESSION has recently gone GA in Azure SQL Database I've been trying to find some details about how it works to understand the pros and cons and so far not …

SQL Server provides options for doing both, which suggests that they are different, but I was under the impression that a clustered index and a table were essentially the same thing, and …

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Aug 19, 2016 · Rebuild the heap by removing and reapplying compression, or by creating and removing a clustered index. I can't figure out why this is the case. If I have a heap with a …

The difference is that with the built-in Data Compression -- row and page -- offered by SQL Server, the compression is handled behind-the-scenes and the data is still usable, readable, …

Oct 18, 2018 · A compressed index is not supported on table that contains sparse columns or a column set column. How can I find out which one the sparse column or the data_compression …