RE: compressing read only file groups

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February 27, 2014 at 1:42 pm

muthyala_51 (1/22/2014)
current size of the database is 2.36 TB. Monthly around 100 GB of data will be added to this partitioned table. We can increase the drive size by adding more space. But I am looking for options to reduce the data size by file compression or data compression.

My recommendation would be to make one of the file groups Read-Write, run REORGANIZE on all indexes, and then see how much free space (not data, not index) there is.

Also, when you set the individual file groups to Read-Only, are you seting the "SINGLE_USER" mode of the database?

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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