• Usually Adhoc reporting is allowed against a Data Warehouse not against an OLTP system - is this an OLTP system, init?

    Allowing adhoc reporting against this structure might cripple the system as a whole.

    I would suggest to create a star-schema datamart in a different environment then allow reporting against it.

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    Pablo (Paul) Berzukov

    Author of Understanding Database Administration available at Amazon and other bookstores.

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