Data Compression is available at last in SQL Server 2008 ... It can be defined at the row level or at the data page level. Both levels of data compression work especially well with variable ...

OK, so it’s one week to Christmas and I have to resort to a holiday theme of some sort. Things are a bit laid back this year. Our family has resorted to the Secret Santa thing to reduce the ...

[Phiresky] has a great answer to that: the sqlite-zstd extension offers transparent row-level compression for SQLite. There are other options, of course, but as the post mentions, each of these ...

Here's what else is cool: You can change the default compression behavior of your entire server. On the Database Settings tab of the Server Properties dialog, you can select the option Compress Backup ...

Microsoft's cloud-based SQL Database now supports row level security (RLS), a feature offered in a number of other databases. RLS lets administrators provide row-level access to data based on a ...

Here are two more in the works to think about: dynamic data masking and row-level security. In the case of these two features, they’ll be released first to the cloud platform (Azure SQL Database) and, ...

Microsoft announced that its SQL Database now supports row level security (RLS). RLS lets administrators provide row-level access to data based on a user's identity or role. The company released the ...