SQL Server 2008, page compression and indexing

Thought I'd share...

We are using SQL Server 2008. A staging table loaded with data from the source system had Page Compression turned on. We saw a 50% reduction in space with no significant reduction in performance. Added a clustered index and realized an additional 24% reduction in space. The index put like records together, enabling the page compression to be more efficient. And the index improved the performance.