I'm also looking forward to reading the article, but from the graph, it looks like simply using a 70% fill factor almost eliminates index problems. Am I interpreting that correctly?

I do not routinely use sysadmin, due to security concerns. I do have an account that has dbo access, which is what I connected with. Sysadmin I use only when...

A collection of scripts that would unbind and rebind every view was one of my thoughts, but when you chain views, order is important - you can't bind a view...

Everything is a trade-off. For the most part, I like the way I'm doing it, and I generally add schemabinding late in the game, when the design is relatively stable....

No, you're right - I do have chained views. Not a lot and not too deep, but they do exist. They're very useful in preventing multiple duplicates of the same...