>Dan,
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>>What they are trying to do is prevent technically-savvy users from changing the data except thru the system. It's a security issue rather than a business logic issue.
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>Why not lock down the SQL Server with special user/pw so that only the middle-tier code can access it, but technically-savvy users cannot. Of course, if the middle-tier code is built distributed-style as a separate component, you might then need to limit access to it as well.
That's what I'm leaning towards. It sure would be easier.
Dan LeClair
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