I have pretty old ERP system running on SQL Server 2005 (about 20GB database. Largest able has 2 million rows). Unfortunately, the ERP can’t run on SQL Server 2008 or newer. I have a huge amount of legacy systems as well. Some of them are VBA frontend and stored procedures as backend and business logic. Some of them are C# applications. I know it is a very bad approach and I’m looking for better solution. I fetch data directly from ERP DB with SELECT WITH (NOLOCK).

If one day (hopefully soon) I will have to replace my ancient ERP with a new one, it will be a nightmare to update thousands of stored procedures, VBA and C# code.

The only solution I can think about is a definition of objects. For example, I plan to maintain P/N table which will hold all my part numbers and relevant data. On another hand, I have to merge the data from ERP to the P/N table every 5 minutes (either SSIS or stored procedure) to keep it updated. It is a huge load on my ERP DB. Considering tremendous amount of objects (warehouses, inventory data, logistics and financial transactions, engineering data) this approach will kill my ERP DB.

Can you propose a better solution?