Every day for the next couple of weeks, I aim to highlight one of SQL Server 2008’s new features, simply for awareness. You can then go away and research the area and report back to me, we’ll then discuss how these new features can benefit us all.
Wednesday 9th June 2010
Backup Compression
Keeping disk-based backups online has always been expensive and excruiatingly time-consuming !!
But now, with SQL Server 2008 backup compression, you don’t need as much storage to keep backups online, and backups will run significantly faster since less disk I/O is required. Finally !