Hi

my instinct is Access would be best, but iirc, you can create parametrized stored procedures in SSMS & invoke them from Excel...i guess it depends on how robust the front end must be and how much you want to stick with Excel, but its viable.

http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-excel/archive/2010/06/07/running-a-sql-stored-procedure-from-excel-no-vba.aspx

best

drew