SQL Server 2008 provides a feature, which, in my opinion, has been far overdue: backup compression. For too long, if you wanted the benefit of compressed backups, you had to look at a third-party tool ...

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 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 ...

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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 ...

Idera, a provider of Microsoft SQL Server management and administration tools, announced SQL virtual database 1.3, the latest release for this solution that enables backup files to look and act just ...