I agree with fforde on this one, for the amount of data involved I don't believe moving to SQL server will provide much improvement. The ideal solution would be for the client not to access the database directly anyway, have the server access the database and media and then provide the video stream and all the other data to the clients. There's then no need for the same location for media on each of the clients, and also allow for moving to something like a linux or web frontend for the clients. This is obviously outside the scope of mp-tvseries, but it's nice to dream 