I know this is a silly scenario, but often silly scenarios arise. We have a hosted SP WSS, but I convinced them to expose the web services. This has been nice for developing some in-house C# tools, but the company seems pretty adamant on mirroring the hosted SP list data (at least for certain lists) so we can run various queries against on-site databases.
I'm not sure what the best approach to "syncing" the two databases are. I don't really mean sync as in sharepoint has to update based on changes locally, just a query-able copy of the SP list into a table. It looks like they have a copy of the table from SP locally (which I have been writing tools for), but it's not up-to-date at all. I get the impression it was manually pulled down at some point. Basically, I just want a reliably updated table that reflects a sharepoint list.
The only real thing I could find was this which involves way more tinkering and work than I would like. I'm not a primary admin on the SQL box, and my main task is just writing tools to reference against our SQL server.
Is there an easy way to do this? Perhaps using the exposed web services? Sorry for the ignorance, I've never had to deal with DB-stuff beyond writing some T-SQL or handing off some stored procedures to the database admin.
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