Hello everybody,

today I want to document one hack that preserved me plenty of space on my hard drive.

Recently I've tried to make back up of production database and was shocked to see that it had almost 200 Gb on my hard drive.  So it made me wonder how can I have smaller backups. 

And here is the solution.

1. In Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio click on database, and choose new query
2. enter there following command: sp_configure 'backup compression default', 1
3. then this: reconfigure WITH OVERRIDE;

After such manipulations I've got back up that had only 27 Gb.