SQL Server 2008 R2 UNICODE Compression – what happens in the background?

(Peter Scharlock) SQL Server 2008 R2 added a much requested feature: Unicode compression. It addresses the need to compress Unicode strings. It is implemented as part of ROW compression, which was added in SQL 2008. That is; if ROW compression (on SQL 2008 R2) is enabled on a table that contains NCH

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