Re: slow performance from a SQL Server

2008-11-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Turner, Don wrote: > I am running a nightly compression to compress the exported sql > server file and, it takes an incredibly long amount of time. I > expect a few hours, since it is compressing over 100 gig of data > however, it seems to be running much slower recently than I > remember. Are th

Re: slow performance from a SQL Server

2008-11-02 Thread Karl Berry
If you hadn't heard about 'lzma' yet then it is a good one to note Perhaps I should mention ... There are some technical problems with the lzma format -- not the compression method itself, which is basically zip with different parameters, but the surrounding scaffolding. The author of lzma-u