I am a database admin and I understand the advantages and disadvantages of different types of data warehousing.

I am also a 420a owner who appreciates this knowledgebase. A foreign database could disappear just like so many images on this site that are outside links. A special forum section would be here to stay with the rest of this knowlege. I don't think I need t go into searching the forum but you could choose to just search the "MS-setups" forum or whatever it is going to be called for your criteria.

I don't want to discourage this project. My goal is to make it simple so that people don't get bogged down in the details. The end result needs to be there for users of this forum 5 years from now.