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A little more about compression

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Happy Monday folks!  Ready to talk some more about compression? Unicode Compression Another type of compression new in SQL Server 2008 is Unicode compression.  This is basically row compression for nchar and nvarchar datatypes.  Per BOL, SQL Server uses the Standard Compression Scheme for Unicode (SCSU) algorithm to achieve up to 50% space savings on […]