Using compression with SSMS is just as easy. Simply set the compression option on the Options page of the Back up Database dialog. You may be asking yourself: How effective is this compression? The ...

SQL Server 2008 provides a feature, which, in my opinion, has been far overdue: backup compression. For too long, if you wanted the benefit of compressed backups, you had to look at a third-party tool ...

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Backup Compression is also new in SQL Server 2008. Although the compression itself works well, the feature has too many limitations (including supporting only Enterprise Edition) to be effective in an ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: Database backups and maintenance windows for very large database are very frustrating especially if we need to generate full database backups to initialize a database mirroring or ...