Field Fodder -- Compression in Real World Datasets

October 31, 2008

With database volumes growing exponentially and CPUs far out performing disks, compression has become a hot topic among database management solutions. Just don't believe everything you hear about compression. Real world compression rates will vary dramatically depending on the data in your warehouse and how you load and query it.

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