Wrap your database calls behind an API of some sort (OO is good here) and rewrite your application to think only in terms of these business-level function calls. So, instead of looking at it as "data from tableA and tableB", think of it as "the quarterly report data".

This has three benefits:

  1. Your application is more testable
  2. Your application is more agile when it comes to change
  3. You can change how the data comes to the application

#3 is the relevant one here. Once all your datastore access has been changed to be business-level, you can use SOAP, XML-RPC, HTTPS ... pick your favorite remote protocol to work with. Your application doesn't care. You can also handle more than one type of protocol, if your clients need this.

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In reply to Re: Remote apps and SQL Server Security by dragonchild
in thread Remote apps and SQL Server Security by ariel2

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