Re: Optimising SQL column data

2013-06-26 Thread Greg Keogh
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

RE: Optimising SQL column data

2013-06-26 Thread GregAtGregLowDotCom
: 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

RE: Optimising SQL column data

2013-06-25 Thread GregAtGregLowDotCom
Hi Greg, Which edition of SQL Server? (Compression at the page level is awesome for this but not everyone has it) It would be really good if the product had a real concept of an enumeration but it doesn't: Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61

Re: Optimising SQL column data

2013-06-25 Thread David Connors
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 3:35 PM, Greg Keogh g...@mira.net wrote: Folks, I'm loading hundreds of thousands of logging lines into a SQL Server table and I noticed that one of the columns contains only short words taken from a handful of choices. So the column reads like FOO FOO FOO FOO BAR FOO