Comment So like ... what are they doing with the data??? (Score 1) 54
ok, so what are your users doing with the data? are they updating it, is it purely read-only?
If it's read-only, and it's statistics, why dont you implement an analysis system instead. Find out what the users are reading from this data, break-it up into logical truth tables and, if possible, implement and update an OLAP cube. Allow people to remote admin/citrix/terminal services into the data via a medium like Crystal reports, analysis services and excel, um um many other pieces of software...
If it's read-only, and it's statistics, why dont you implement an analysis system instead. Find out what the users are reading from this data, break-it up into logical truth tables and, if possible, implement and update an OLAP cube. Allow people to remote admin/citrix/terminal services into the data via a medium like Crystal reports, analysis services and excel, um um many other pieces of software...
