Table Compression:
When to Use it
Data warehouses containing large volumes of
historical data
Compress all of the older data in a data warehouse
Integrate compression into the rolling window
paradigm
For example, most recent 3 months of data could be
stored uncompressed and the previous 21 months
could be stored compressed
Materialized views and other derived data sets
Generally, compression should be applied to data that
is infrequently updated