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Reader Dick H. posted a comment on my last version of this script stating that he got an error when this was run against tables containing sparse columns. Data compression does not support tables with sparse columns, so they should be excluded from this process. I’ve modified this script to correct this. I don’t have […]
This is just a bug fix from my last post of this code. I ran into a case where you would not get notified if the only indexes in a database that were being repeatedly defragged had fill factors of 50 or less. I would think this would be a pretty rare case, but it […]
It never fails. You work on something, be it a painting, a story, or even a SQL script, and tweak it until you’ve got it just right and, finally, after all your hard work, you publish it. Then you immediately find something you want to change. Guess what? The very day my updated data compression […]
It’s been about a year and a half since I last posted an update to my script that scans databases for objects to compress and, optionally, compresses them. This time around, I’ve just incorporated a bug fix and added a check to make sure the script is running on an edition of SQL Server that […]