You administer a Microsoft SQL Server 2012 database. The database contains a Product table created by
using the following definition:
You need to ensure that the minimum amount of disk space is used to store the data in the Product table. What
should you do?
A.
Convert all indexes to Column Store indexes.
B.
Implement Unicode Compression.
C.
Implement row-level compression.
D.
Implement page-level compression.
Explanation:
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A
D
The answer will depend upon SQL version used
for 2012 – page compression
for 2014 – columns store clustered
http://www.patrickkeisler.com/2014/05/comparison-of-columnstore-compression.html