Physical Implementation Chapter 12 ­ Compression eed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you." --Tony Dorsett "To succeed... you need to find some things in your tables to compress. Saving a half Tera- byte will motivate and inspire management." --Tera-Tom Compression is fantastic! Did you know that you could now compress up to 255 distinct values (plus NULLs) per fixed width column? You can. This can significantly enhance system costs and performance. Incorporating multi-value compression on existing tables