(The Curious Case of… used to be part of our bi-weekly newsletter but we decided to make it a regular blog post instead so it can sometimes be more frequent. It covers something interesting one of us encountered when working with a client, doing some testing, or were asked in a random question from the community.)
In the previous Curious Case post, I explained how to monitor how well page compression is working. That prompted a reader to ask me how to monitor the hit rate of lookups in the cache of decompressed column values. She was very surprised by my answer…
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