Questions tagged [compression]
The name given to the process of encoding data such that it uses lesser number of bits as compared to the original representation.
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is it safe to compress backups for databases with TDE enabled?
I've been reading about this for a long time, and it seems it's not safe to compress a backup when the database has TDE enabled.
is anyone experiencing errors during restore with compressed backups ...
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Manual SCSU 'compression' in SQL Server 2017 for NVARCHAR(MAX)
SQL Server has the wonderful SCSU "compression" gem that works on NVARCHAR(1-4000) types. The usage of SCSU effectively means that the physical storage space used is approximately that of ...
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PostgreSQL backup + gzip
We have a need to send PostgreSQL DB backup to CRM developer.
We send them and get feedback that the backup can't be "uzipped", as archive is broken.
The backup script snippet looks like ...
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Table compression on 500GB table using Enterprise edition with online=on
I am using MS SQL2016 enterprise edition and we have several tables that need to be compressed to save memory and backup space. Right now they are each around 500GB and I am trying to get some space ...
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Question on compression for very large tables in sql server
I have a confusion on how this compression feature works in SQL server:
For quite some large tables , ones with over TB, we recently implemented PAGE level compression.
Example of how it was done:-
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How to plan bring down the space used by databases to as low as possible
Per our security breaks and guidelines when a database grow too big that it cant meet the requirements where it cannot be restored under a given RTO we need to plan on achieving same:-
Based on your ...
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SQL Server 2016 compress function details - external decompression
According to SQL Server 2016 docs COMPRESS and DECOMPRESS methods are just a blackbox - you put the data in and after some magic it gets compressed or decompressed. The problem is that I need to find ...
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COMPRESS TABLESPACE 11g
I have quite big datapump dump file and tried to load it into compressed tablespace that is created with "DEFAULT COMPRESS FOR OLTP" because of lack of free space. Anyway, when I look at &...
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SQL Server 2016, history temporal table not compressed by default in Standard Edition
I have a BI database running on SQL Server 2016 Standard SP2 CU14 (13.0.5830.85) in which there are multiple temporal tables defined with default history tables. According to Microsoft, such history ...
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backup using gzip slow
We are currently backing up some schemas in Postgres using this command:
pg_dump -h localhost -n test_schema mydb | gzip > /data1/backup/test_chema.dmp.gz
And we are getting a rate of 50 Megabytes ...
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Compress JSON String Stored in PostgreSQL, such as MessagePack?
JSON strings are currently being stored in a PostgreSQL 11 table in a text field. For example, a row can have the text field asks containing the string:
{"0.000295":1544.2,"0.000324":1050,"0.000325":...
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When would I want to use COMPRESS and DECOMPRESS functions in SQL Server 2016?
In what live operational or development situation /requirement would I want to use the Compress function?
Like when should I become thankful for Compress and Decompress functions introduced in ...
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Find Uncompressed/Compressed Sizes of TimescaleDB Database/Table
For a database/table in TimescaleDB and PostgreSQL 11 running on ZFS with both ZFS compression and native TimescaleDB compression enabled, how can you find the uncompressed and compressed sizes when
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How does MOVE COMPRESS affect future data?
I'm working with Oracle 11g and a requirement came down the pipeline to "[C]ompress our data [sic]." And I'm wondering how compression will affect future data.
The actual PL/SQL isn't an issue (...
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Data compression at distribution level in SQL Server replication
I have SQL Server transactional replication setup.
For one of the server I am facing slowness due to limited network bandwidth. Is there any way to compress data at distribution level only.
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how to add data compression to a primary key of a table?
We work with tables with over 300GB of size, a small percentage of them tables use sparse columns
although that doesn't always agree with CPU utilization as this question shows.
For the tables that ...
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data compression does not show when scripting index on ssms
when I right click on SSMS and choose to script the create index:
I get this script, without the data_compression:
USE [APCore]
GO
/****** Object: Index [i_agencyId] Script Date: 07/11/2019 12:...
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Row Compression in AlwaysOn Availability Groups
I want to implement row compression on some databases that are in an availability group. Are row and page compression supported in availability group databases?
Does it affect the replication, ...
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SQL Server Non Clustered Index Compression
I'm struggling to find out the answer, we currently use compression on all our data warehouse tables, which has improved performance and also greatly reduced the storage space used.
I've only ...
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Alternatives to Network Backup
In our environment we have some servers that are in an Always On Availability Group, and some that are standalone.
We normally backup to a network share, but we have recently observed that as the ...
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How can I see if the data in a SQL Server table is page-compressed?
This is a follow-on question to a question which I asked yesterday: Can I bulk insert into an empty page-compressed table and get full compression? The answer to that question (paraphrased from Randi ...
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Can I bulk insert into an empty page-compressed table and get full compression?
I have a lot of large tables (around 10 million wide rows) which need to be regularly loaded into SQL Server 2016 for read-only reporting. I would like these tables to be as small as possible on disk, ...
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how to find tables with either sparse or a column set column?
from the error message below:
A compressed index is not supported on table that contains sparse
columns or a column set column
as I was rebuilding an index and changing the data_compression to ...
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Huge Heap Table and table compression on SQL Server 2016
My database size is huge, and recently I noticed that a new table added few months ago is the culprit.
Here is the table script.
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO
CREATE TABLE [dbo]....
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Is it possible to compress CLOB columns in DB2 10.5
I have a table with a CLOB(1M). If I enable compression (compression yes adaptive) on the the table the CLOB is not compressed. Is there a way to make this work in DB2 10.5?
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Is compression used in RDS SQLServer database
I have few Clarification regarding AWS RDS SQL Server.
Do we have any compression technique to compress the data loaded into RDS SQL server?
Is there any option or parameter to compress the data and ...
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MySQL: Change compression on an existing InnoDB table
Is there any way to turn on compression for an existing table? I don't care if there's downtime for this.
The docs only mention setting compression when the table is created.
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Do SQL Server compressed indexes remain compressed on rebuild without specifying data compression?
After one rebuilds their SQL Server indexes using page compression (ALTER INDEX IX1 REBUILD PARTITION = ALL WITH (DATA_COMPRESSION = PAGE)), do subsequent rebuilds (as done by some maintenance scripts ...
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How to analyze compression options for Azure SQL Database?
What is the most efficient way to determine whether row or page or columnstore compression (or none) would be most effective for each index in an Azure SQL Database (standard or premium tier) used for ...
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sparse column or DATA_COMPRESSION?
in one of my databases I have the following table:
CREATE TABLE [app].[applicantSkill](
[ApplicantSkillID] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[applicantID] [int] NOT NULL,
[skillID] [tinyint] ...
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Testing Data Compression
We have a 1TB table that gets queried a lot. I have suggested we use Data Compression to save on space as well as help put more in memory. Because of the concern of CPU overhead, I have been tasked ...
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GZip existing varbinary(max) column in Sql Server 2008+
I have an existing legacy table that is ~180GB in size due to a client application storing PDF files as varbinary. I'd like to be able to compress that column for all rows using GZIP to help save ...
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After page compressing a huge table, the disk space didn't change. Do I need to shrink in any kind?
MSSQL: There is a daily partitioned table which was 2 GB and we needed to compress this table by page compression. After compression, the table size got smaller if I check from the table properties - ...
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Enable compression for SQL Server Managed Backup to Microsoft Azure
I am using SQL Server Managed Backup to Microsoft Azure for multiple databases on my SQL Server 2017. I am trying to figure out how to enable compression on some of the databases. It seems from this ...
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Store large compressed documents in Postgresql
Where I work we keep approximately 500,000 image files related to processing for our customer in a file system attached to our Redhat 5.11 production server. We are planning an upgrade to Redhat 7.4 ...
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Is there any string compaction option for PostgreSQL?
I have a table like this:
CREATE TABLE BLOG(
CATEGORY CHAR(32)
);
Category is a column, which stored enum values.
For example, I have 1 millions of rows and 10 unique values of Category.
Let'...
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Cancelling the rebuilding of a partition with compression
Trying to enable compression on a large table in production but we are now out of time (been running for 6.5 hours already).
What is the impact of cancelling the operation and letting it roll back?
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Are Postgres btree index keys compressed?
v8.4 and v9.2 (Yes, I know they're archaic and out of support, but there's nothing I can do about it.)
Some of the tables in the database which I manage (but don't design) have btree indexes on ...
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Do I gain read performance improvement by using zlib rather than snappy compression in MongoDB?
My current storage engine is WiredTiger and its compression level is as default, snappy. I've come across MongoDB documentation and it's been mentioned that using zlib compress better but needs more ...
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Compress PostgreSQL Database
I have a large PostgreSQL database over 500GB in size which is too large. Is there anyway to compress the database down to a more manageable size? I have attempted to do this with SquashFS and the ...
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Using Ola Hallengren’s Maintenance in SQL Server 2016 with TDE Enabled databases and compression
I’m using Ola Hallengren’s maintenance and backup solution and looking into leveraging TDE compression as I have all the databases in instance using TDE impression. Is there a way of getting benefit ...
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How to iterate through table and modify entrys in an “if” statement with MySQL
What I have is a table containing some temperature readings which often jump back and forth.
+------------+----------+-------------+
| timestamp | sensorID | temperature |
+------------+----------+--...
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When would you use InnoDB PAGE compression over InnoDB TABLE compression?
From what I understand, InnoDB table level compression is "transparent" and appears to perform well on the surface.
In what circumstances would it be beneficial to choose InnoDB page level ...
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Compression not available on SQL Server Standard? Options?
So as they say, everyday is a school day. Today I learned that my workplace, runs SQL Server Standard edition, where I would have assumed Enterprise was in place. Although in reality shouldn't be ...
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Find uncompressed size of all tables in a database
In Dynamics AX there is a caching mechanism where tables can be configured to be loaded into memory and cached. This cache is limited to a certain amount of KB to prevent memory issues. The setting I'...
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SQL Server 2012 compress column for whole table
I was wondering if SQL Server supports a kind of dictionary compression for a whole table, and not just a page.
The system I'm working on wasn't initially created for the large amounts of data it ...
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Compression setting not effective for differential backup maintenance plan?
We are taking backups (Full, Differential, and Transaction Log) of databases using the maintenance plans feature in SQL Server.
While taking the backup, I have chosen the compress option to compress ...
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Compression function in Postgres
Using Java & JDBC I am storing Strings into a JSONB column in Postgres. When inserting this works great.
When retrieving values, I am running low on memory in Java because I am retrieving ...
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how do I set the compression level in tokudb
Tokudb has various algorithms, lmza, zlib, zstd etc.
These algorithms have the ability to be configured. In that, you can set the compression level to a value between 1 and 10 depending on the ...
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Spatial Index Compression
I am looking to turn page compression on on a spatial index. The instance is 2008 Enterprise. The index is pre-existing on a vendor supplied app. In searching through BOL, it states that compression ...
