Comments on: Microsoft Azure SQL Database Data Compression https://thomaslarock.com/2014/06/microsoft-azure-sql-database-data-compression/ Thomas LaRock is an author, speaker, data expert, and SQLRockstar. He helps people connect, learn, and share. Along the way he solves data problems, too. Fri, 13 Nov 2015 15:05:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: (SFTW) SQL Server Links 13/06/14 - John Sansom https://thomaslarock.com/2014/06/microsoft-azure-sql-database-data-compression/#comment-11035 Fri, 13 Jun 2014 09:48:02 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=11432#comment-11035 […] Microsoft Azure SQL Database Data Compression – Thomas Larock (Blog|Twitter) […]

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By: pini https://thomaslarock.com/2014/06/microsoft-azure-sql-database-data-compression/#comment-11016 Mon, 09 Jun 2014 20:41:00 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=11432#comment-11016 In reply to ThomasLaRock.

Hi.
In west eur it works gr8.
I wrote about it last week in my blog
http://Www.sqlazure.co.il
Its in hebrow but you can translate.

I also compressed huge table reduce from 80gb to 20gb.
The issue is the rebuild.
I had to build new table and push it the data.
10x

Pini

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By: ThomasLaRock https://thomaslarock.com/2014/06/microsoft-azure-sql-database-data-compression/#comment-11015 Mon, 09 Jun 2014 19:37:00 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=11432#comment-11015 In reply to Mike Donnelly.

Mike,

Exactly. I was looking at the pricing calculator, trying to see what thresholds would make sense for significant savings. But you also pay for egress, and if fewer data pages are leaving the data center you could get some savings there, too.

So that’s why I decided to just ask for examples instead of trying to calculate at what point and for what workloads would compression offer significant cost savings.

Tom

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By: Mike Donnelly https://thomaslarock.com/2014/06/microsoft-azure-sql-database-data-compression/#comment-11014 Mon, 09 Jun 2014 19:25:00 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=11432#comment-11014 I think the ability to save money using compression reduced a little with the new tiers. You now pay per day and the size of 250GB is included with standard and 500GB is included with premium. If you can get the database size under 2GB you might save money by just using Basic, but I don’t think many people will be running production databases on Basic. Of course those are all in preview so things could shake out a little differently before they go live.

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By: Microsoft Azure SQL Database Data Compression - SQL Server - SQL Server - Toad World https://thomaslarock.com/2014/06/microsoft-azure-sql-database-data-compression/#comment-11013 Mon, 09 Jun 2014 18:31:43 +0000 http://thomaslarock.com/?p=11432#comment-11013 […] Microsoft Azure SQL Database Data Compression is a post from: SQLRockstar – Thomas LaRock […]

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