Sunday, 4 October 2009

Minimising Data Compression Rebuild Time

ALTER TABLE REBUILD WITH(DATA COMPRESSION=PAGE,MAXDOP=8)


Implementing table compression use server MAXDOP (sp_configure 'max degree of parallelism') if you dont set MAXDOP in statement.

A good explanation of page compression and the MAXDOP setting is here >
http://sqlblog.com/blogs/linchi_shea/archive/2008/05/05/sql-server-2008-page-compression-using-multiple-processors.aspx

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