https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-vmware/simplivity-and-sql-databases/m-p/6991432#M2242 <P>Hi,</P><P>This has nothing to do with Simplivity as such but with the data inside the database... Most of the time (but like I said it depends of the data...) data in databases are not ideal (just like video's) for deduplication and/or compression...</P><P>This is the same with 3PAR dedup and compression and all other storage platforms... It's all about the data...</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Kr,</P><P>Bart</P> Thu, 14 Dec 2017 20:42:18 GMT Bart_Heungens 2017-12-14T20:42:18Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-vmware/simplivity-and-sql-databases/m-p/6991305#M2241 <P>This is actually a simplivity question but I do not see a forum for simplivity.</P><P>I was told by a simplivity technician that sql server databases do not compress on simplivity storage. Is this true?</P> Wed, 13 Dec 2017 19:46:30 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-vmware/simplivity-and-sql-databases/m-p/6991305#M2241 DougHydier 2017-12-13T19:46:30Z https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-vmware/simplivity-and-sql-databases/m-p/6991432#M2242 <P>Hi,</P><P>This has nothing to do with Simplivity as such but with the data inside the database... Most of the time (but like I said it depends of the data...) data in databases are not ideal (just like video's) for deduplication and/or compression...</P><P>This is the same with 3PAR dedup and compression and all other storage platforms... It's all about the data...</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Kr,</P><P>Bart</P> Thu, 14 Dec 2017 20:42:18 GMT https://community.hpe.com/t5/operating-system-vmware/simplivity-and-sql-databases/m-p/6991432#M2242 Bart_Heungens 2017-12-14T20:42:18Z