SQL 2008 OpsDay - Data and Backup Compression
Hi all,
Just wanted to thank all the attendees that participated to yesterday's event on SQL Server 2008 in TVP - Reading.
We've received great feedback on the content of the day, and I really hope everybody went back home (for some of you I heard it was quite a long way) sure that SQL Server 2008 is a great product full of new features and enhancements which are just what you need for your business activities.
I just want to follow-up some questions which I've received during the event, and leave some links to review if you want to further learn about Data and Backup Compression.
Questions:
"Data compression is an enterprise only feature. Is it possible though to restore compressed backup on standard?"
Though creating compressed backups is supported only in SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition and later, every SQL Server 2008 or later edition can restore a compressed backup.
"Are there some guidelines to tune performances of backup compression"?
Yes, one interesting article from Technet and from SQL CAT:
- Tuning the Performance of Backup Compression in SQL Server 2008
- How to: Use Resource Governor to Limit CPU Usage by Backup Compression (Transact-SQL)
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc280384(SQL.100).aspx
Useful information:
Reducing Database Size by Using Vardecimal Storage Format
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb508963.aspx
Creating Compressed Tables and Indexes
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc280449(SQL.100).aspx
SQL Server Storage Engine - Data Compression Series
https://blogs.msdn.com/sqlserverstorageengine/archive/tags/Data+Compression/default.aspx
Backup Compression (SQL Server)
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb964719(SQL.100).aspx
SQL Server 2008: Backup Compression
https://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/2007/09/20/SQLServer2008BackupCompression.aspx
SQL Server 2008: Backup Compression CPU Cost
https://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/paul/2008/01/09/SQLServer2008BackupCompressionCPUCost.aspx
Download the last CTP
https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/content/content.aspx?ContentID=5395
For any additional question, please contact myself directly at beatrice.nicolini@microsoft.com and read our team blog at https://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/thepremiers/default.aspx.
- Beatrice Nicolini -
Comments
- Anonymous
January 01, 2003
After my follow-up post about our SQL Server 2008 event in TVP , where I've presented about SQL Server