Quote Originally Posted by ixion
Considering that many govenrment regulations require data be retained for 7 years, it is my opionion that archives should be in an open format not proprietary.
I PM'd you as well, but I'd love to hear this discussed publicly ... I understand what you are saying (been through SOX audits before - joyful). Are you suggesting a text file dump (select * ...)?

I wonder what others think about this. Definitely simple to implement ... so why not this vs. other methods?