Do not try this at home. SQL Server 2008 Data Compression is an intelligent compression strategy. It saves space and delivers better performance through less IO.

No need to turn to third-party tools to keep your databases as small as possible. It's in SQL Server 2008 now.

A survey of PostgreSQL users has found that the levels of uptime experienced using cloud providers falls well short of their ...

There's a very handy new tool from Microsoft called the Database Experimentation Assistant (DEA). The DEA makes it very easy to conduct A/B testing for SQL Server upgrades, providing quantitative ...

So I'm faced with a task that involves compressing data stored in an SQL Server 2005 database.The data is mainly pdf documents, but tons of other documents are stored there as well. Most of them ...

Do you need to find out where the location of your SQL Server's database is? Here's a quick tip.

One of the long-standing differentiators between SQL Server's Enterprise Edition (EE) and Standard Edition (SE), besides price, were the large number of features available only in EE. This is also ...

Q&A Get Started Using .NET Aspire with SQL Server & Azure SQL Database By David Ramel 01/23/2025 Microsoft unveiled .NET Aspire at the Build 2024 developer conference, describing it as an opinionated, ...

For a long time Oracle could claim that there were no open source alternatives for enterprise database applications, but that is no longer the case.