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What’s up with the South African airline industry lately? All I see lately are reports of problems and I’m considering staying on the ground for the near future. Just take a look at the following headlines taken from The Times over the last couple of days: 07 Nov – Plane in trouble over Cape Town … Continue reading It’s plane stupid
Jonathan Allen and Chad Boyd have interest blog posts on the new SQL Server 2008 compression features. Row level compression drastically reduces the meta-data needed for variable length columns. Instead of storing the length of each field in 2 bytes, it now takes a mere 3 bits. Fields themselves are also smaller. Storing a 1 … Continue reading SQL Server 2008 Compression