Comments on: SQL SERVER – 2008 – Introduction to Row Compression

By: Uday Chowdary

Uday Chowdary — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 07:04:48 +0000

Sir
It is really helpful for me. I have gone through all of sql server 2008 interview questions. The way you are explaining is really excellent. Please publish more questions.

By: bhavani

bhavani — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:42:05 +0000

i want indetail about the Dirrential backup.

but i don’t know how to use that.

i am daily getting the full backup but it takes so much of time.

Please Consider this sir,

By: bhavani

bhavani — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 05:38:09 +0000

Thanks Sir,

its very good.

By: SQL SERVER - 2008 - Interview Questions and Answers - Part 8 Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:30:16 +0000

[...] Row compression changes the format of physical storage of data. It minimize the metadata (column information, length, offsets etc) associated with each record. Numeric data types and fixed length strings are stored in variable-length storage format, just like Varchar. (Read More Here) [...]

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 18:57:53 +0000

Very interesting

By: Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]

Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP] — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 19:22:53 +0000

Is there a performance difference when using row compression? Surely there are space savings, but you never get something for nothing. I imagine there is a small computational cost that is attached to these storage savings.