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Compress and Decompress SQL Functions

Compress and Decompress SQL Functions

Compress: Compresses input data and returns the binary data of type VARBINARY(MAX)

Decompress: Decompresses compressed input binary data and returns the binary data of type VARBINARY(MAX)

Here is small example in SQL Server 2016:

SELECT COMPRESS ('Data To Compress')SELECT DECOMPRESS (Binary Data To Decompress)
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