About read-only report database - already underway - as you say very obvious - just thought there might be a quick interim fix. A large number of the reports do have to be bang up to date (about 40%) and due to the nature of the business they do not restict themselves to three table joins with two records - plus the client insists on using CR parameters which seem to have the effect of doing the report query at least one for each dropdown etc

It looks like somewhere under the hood of CR it should be possible buy version 10 is the nearest I can find where it is possible.

I'll let you know when we find a definitive way around this one.