Good article Paul, look forward to reading more on it!

I also would like to see more articles like this as I had studied general database engine low-level workings and theories (17 years ago I wrote a thesis on using compressed caches in database engines, never thought it would take this long to see even basic compression used - SQL 2008 being Microsoft's first real go at this lol).

It is great to see how SQL Server applies them, as outside open source code and Microsoft white papers it is rarely discussed now :(.