In those cases when I'm strapped for extra 208k of disk, I usually drop the clustered index.
~BOT
Heh... Like you say... touche`. You're absolutely correct about that... they don't take much room.
--Jeff Moden
RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row. First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code: ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.
Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.