Using Data Compression on Microsoft SQL 2008 R2

We have a very large database which keeps growing and growing. This has made our upgrade process extremely troublesome because the upgrade wizard seems to require close to 3 times the database size of free space to even start.
As such, we are considering activating DATA COMPRESSION on the PAGE level in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2. This technology is native to the SQL Server and compresses the rows and the pages so that they do not take up more space than necessary.
Traditionally each row take up the space of the maximum of all the fields even though only part of a field is filled with data.
[Blog about Data Compression|http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlserverstorageengine/archive/2007/11/12/types-of-data-compression-in-sql-server-2008.aspx]
Our idea is to use this initially on the Axxx tables (historic data) to minimize the space they take by using for example:
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[ADO1] REBUILD PARTITION = ALL
WITH (DATA_COMPRESSION = PAGE)
On a test database we have seen tables go from 6GB of space to around 1,5GB which is a significant saving.
MY QUESTION: Is this allowed to do from SAP point of view? The technology is completely transparent but it does involve a rebuild of the table as demonstrated above.
Thanks.
Best regards,
Mike

We are using Simple recovery model, so our log files are pretty small.
Our database itself is about 140GB now and it keeps growing.
We've also reduced the history size to about 10 versions.
Still, some of our tables are 6-10GB.
Some of the advantages of data compression is to also that it improves disk I/O at the cost of slightly higher CPU, which we are pretty sure our server can handle.
Mike

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http://www.microsoft.com/en-in/server-cloud/products/sql-server/Support.aspx
Perhaps you could post you question on the SQL forum :
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Regards,
Mekh.

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