Find out if any of your tables are compressed in your database using the query below. Compressed tables can save space and make queries run faster.
— Compressed Tables
select distinct t.name AS CompressedTables
from sys.partitions p
inner join sys.tables t
on p.object_id = t.object_id
where p.data_compression > 0
If you don’t have any tables compressed but think you might want to compress some, you can check your data compression savings by running the stored procedure sp_estimate_data_compression_savings for your targeted table.
USE WideWorldImporters;
GO
EXEC sp_estimate_data_compression_savings ‘Sales’, ‘Invoices’, NULL, NULL, ‘ROW’ ;
GO