Is it truely an archive database, so you can just toggle it to read only mode, or is it somewhere in between?
You could add a file group, and move the clustered indexes to the new file group, and then make that tilegroup read only. That would prevent updates t9 those tables no matter the permissions or execute context.
Lowell
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