title: Large Volume Excel Data Pulls - Avoiding ODBC
body: <p>We have a requirement to provide ad-hoc access to large subsets of a system's data to users to analyse in Excel.
  We do not want to grant direct ODBC access. This will curb our ability to make DB layout changes without our users' processes breaking.</p>
  
  <p>Web Services seem ill suited for the volume of data at stake, in the region of 100's of thousands of records.</p>
  
  <p>What would you suggest as an alternative to direct ODBC access?</p>