As you know data compression facility is added onto the SQL Server 2008 version, though this is not a new feature and I would call it as an enhanced feature in SQL Server. This subject of data compression has already been introduced in SQL Server 2005 version which is usage of VARDECIMAL with having table-level option can be used with decimals & numeric fields data, so this has been stretched further in 2008 version to the users. So this compression is a big leap in 2008 and different to normal...(
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