Compressing Outcomes

You find yourself cruising along, just doing your thing as a database administrator. Then the CIO plops down into a...

Compressing Outcomes

Find yourself struggling to determine the outcome of attempted compression settings in your database? This should help!
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Compressing Encrypted Backups

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Compressing Encrypted Backups

A common requirement, whether it be based out of pure want or truly out of necessity, is to make a large database backup file, that is encrypted, be much...

What is DBCC?

If I ask you what is DBCC, what would your answer be?
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What is DBCC?

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