Just keep in mind that the benefits you get from Data Compression (which works at the page level, replacing repeating data with lookup pointers) will depend on the nature of the data in your table and ...

The importance of automating processes can’t be overestimated. Most things start out as a manual procedure until you work out exactly how things should happen, but many times they stay that way ...

Microsoft SQL Azure is a highly available and scalable cloud database service built on SQL Server technologies and is a key component of Microsoft's cloud strategy. Using data replication to load data ...