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You are a database developer. You plan to design a database solution by using SQL Server 2008. The database will store multilingual data. The database will contain a table that has 100 million rows…
The correct answer is C. Define the columns as sparse columns. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.
Question
You are a database developer. You plan to design a database solution by using SQL Server 2008. The database will store multilingual data. The database will contain a table that has 100 million rows. The table will contain 1,000 columns that are based on the nvarchar(max) data type. For each column, only 2 percent of the rows will be populated. You need to design the table to optimize storage space. What should you do?
Options
- AUse row compression.
- BUse NTFS file system compression to reduce the disk space used.
- CDefine the columns as sparse columns.
- DChange the column data types to varchar(max).
How the community answered
(30 responses)- A3% (1)
- B17% (5)
- C70% (21)
- D10% (3)
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