Is it OK to allow users to query an OLTP SQL Server database with excel?
- by user169867
I have a SQL Server 2005 database used by several applications.
Some users wish to query the database directly from excel. I can understand this, because it is a useful tool for adhoc queries and then getting the data in a format that's easily transmitted and manipulated by other users.
My question is: Does Excel (say 2003/2007) do its querying in a way that won't cause concurency issues?
Or is it done in such a way that a seperate datawarehouse database needs to be made to handle this scenario?
Thanks for any advise.