An installable assembly for SQL Server that adds Deflate (the algorithm used by GZip) Compression functions for nvarchar values. Download the latest release from the Download page. Please note that ...

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[!INCLUDE [SQL Server Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Managed Instance](../../includes/applies-to-version/sql-asdb-asdbmi.md)] This article summarizes how [!INCLUDE ...