Is there a particular reason you would like to eliminate SDS ? There are other detergents you'll probably find in most labs. Some are more aggressive like sarkosyl; some are weak such as the Tween series.
Not really. We just ran out of SDS and for now we need to do a plasmid extraction just to see its size. We do have tween. which concentration would be the best?
If you have a small high copy number plasmid, just boil the cells (in a high density), spin and load, you should ba able to see the plasmid on the gel this way.