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 ...

I was testing out some new SQL Server 2008 features recently: Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and Backup Compression. Both are new features in SQL Server 2008. TDE will allow you to encrypt an ...

Data Compression is available at last in SQL Server 2008. Even Backup Compression is available. This will help us save space and time. So maybe my comment about comparing storage and the financial ...

Find out about the "backup compression default" option. See how it determines whether SQL Server creates compressed backups by default, and learn how to set it.

# Behavior of compressed backups when you append backups to an existing media set This article introduces the behavior of compressed backups when you append backups to an existing media set. One of ...

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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 ...

I remember a conversation I had at the Redmond campus with the program manager (at that time it was Paul Randall... now I think he goes by Paul Tripp, but all the same he's not a MS anymore.). Anyway ...

I still have a hard time getting jazzed about Katmai's backup compression. Again, it's probably because I've been using LiteSpeed for so long, and it's just not news anymore. Not to mention it still ...