Actually it's the best thing in the box for 2008 but it's Enterprise Edition only. That's why I was checking whether you were working on a project with it.
Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax SQL Down Under | Web: <http://www.sqldownunder.com/> www.sqldownunder.com From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Wednesday, 26 June 2013 5:53 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Optimising SQL column data Which edition of SQL Server? (Compression at the page level is awesome for this but not everyone has it) I have both SQL Server 2012 standard (for fiddling with), but I mostly use the previous one, what was it 2008? I haven't heard about the new compression you mention, so I'll run a few searches on it. However, it sounds rather low-level and dangerous -- Greg K
