Hi Mike:

special case of Datamining...
the table is *only* written to before any index is created.

All the indeces are used in more than one query -
and here the index involving the UDF is created always again -
and I need it also in some seek/scan - scenarios, so I have
to create it myself as well.

I will probably create redundant fields, as indeces on those
can easily be reused. That should still leave me with 18 months
until I reach th2 2 Gig barrier again <g>.

regards

thomas