Database Compression
In the world of today, IT service providers constantly face problems of storage space. Under these circumstances, administrators and users turn to database shrinking and compression. By this practice, limited storage space can be used efficiently. There are many ways to achieve this. There is software that accomplishes the same task and there are various commands in different servers that can do the same job.
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For SQL 2008 R2 databases ‘DBCC SHRINKDATABASE’ can be used. All you have to do is, state the name of the database and state the target percentage compression.
