Microsoft® SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed
by Ray Rankins, Paul Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
Data Compression
SQL Server 2008 introduced a new data compression feature that is available in Enterprise and Datacenter Editions. Data compression helps to reduce both storage and memory requirements as the data is compressed both on disk and when brought into the SQL Server data cache.
When compression is enabled and data is written to disk, it is compressed and stored in the designated compressed format. When the data is read from disk into the buffer cache, it remains in its compressed format. This helps reduce both storage requirements and memory requirements. It also reduces I/O because more data can be stored on a data page when it’s compressed. When the data is passed to another component of SQL Server, however, the Database Engine ...
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