This would be my TechEd post. 

I was at TechEd for all of one day, on the first day. The only relationship I can make to the title of this blog and TechEd is the word space. The Orange County Convention Center is incredibly large. Even when you add several thousand IT professionals.  The free beer on Monday evening made it seem a bit smaller because I was walking askance or askew or asksomeoneelse I dont remember.  I enjoyed meeting everyone again. I met Tony again this year and treated him to some American beer, Mr Samuel Adams...Sorry, Tony that the only good bar we could find had no good ale.  And I met one of my SQL heroes, Itzik Ben-Gan.  I am sure I scared him with my inebriated homage. After all I am 6 foot 6, 260 pounds and can be a bit intimidating, but he towers above me mentally.

So..how much space does an index take if an index did take space.

Thinking of Katmai and the unrelational datastore, I have to offer this: If Microsoft does use SQL Server in the furture to store Windows file system information I put forth my idea for the name of the index scheme to use: Windex.

So with that incredibly horrible remark, I will retire to my small room which is about 1/1,000,000 the size of TechEd and ponder SQL Server 2011.

Rodney