Date: Tuesday, May 20th
Topic: SQL Server 2008 Data Compression
One of the most significant new features in SQL Server 2008 is data compression, which has been long sought after by the SQL Server community.
Now that it's here, the question becomes:
How is it, and How can you effectively use it in managing your databases?
In this session, Linchi gives an independent assessment of SQL Server 2008 data compression with solid empirical test results, and looks at what types of data may be good/bad for data compression, and what workloads may benefit from data compression. The focus is on the performance and space implications. To help appreciate the feature in a bigger context, the
presentation will also include a competitive analysis of data compression across the major DBMS products.
Presenter: Linchi Shea
Linchi Shea has been working with Microsoft SQL Server since version 4.2. He is currently responsible for SQL Server engineering at a major Wall Street firm in the New York City area. Linchi is passionate about creating robust and automated infrastructures for managing SQL Server in a large enterprise environment. He has written many tools and utilities to simplify deploying, operating, and testing SQL Server. You can find him blogging about SQL Server enterprise issues at www.sqlblog.com. Linchi is a co-founder and co-lead of the NY Metro SQL Server users group, and has been a Microsoft MVP since 2002.
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