You're optimizing for write, but the performance gain is negligible in comparison to the performance loss due to index fragmentation and slow joins. Also, on "

You're optimizing for write, but the performance gain is negligible in comparison to the performance loss due to index fragmentation and slow joins. Also, on "storage is cheap": http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/kimberly/disk-space-is-cheap/ http://www.sqlskills.com/blogs/kimberly/disk-space-is-cheap/