> It just requires a stored procedure to be executed periodically
> to minimise the number or records to be summed.

Speaking of which, any consensus on how to best do this ?
- a cron job / scheduled task ?
- via event monitors ?
- a counter and a trigger ? (i.e. execute after counter reaches n)
- forced during application startup ? (won't work for web apps, though)
- something else ?

Thanks in advance,
t.s.