Best way to access Choice column 'choices'?

Hi,
Background: I have a Choice field passed down from a Content Type Hub to a content type used in a Document Library in another site collection. This choice column has a lot of 'choice entries' (<Choice 1>, <Choice 2>
etc....). These entries will probably increase or possibly change in time. A colleague is writing a simple front end solution that uses a separate SQL backend which requires to know the 'choice entries'.
Issue: So as to have the most up to date list of 'choices', the colleague has a requirement to 'look at' or export these choice entries from the SharePoint backend - and is asking for the sql table where they
are held.
I am aware that being touchy-feely with the back-end is not a good idea, but out of interest have done some research into the table location but have made no progress so far.
Questions:
1) Can the values be directly 'read' from the SQL backend and if so how?
2) Is there a better way to achieve this that is straightforward?
Many thanks in advance for any time and thought put into this issue
Jason

1. No.
2. to perform a "live" lookup, the SQL way, would require an ODBC or ADO.Net to SharePoint adapter, which could be used as a Linked Server within SQL. This is BEYOND impractical.
3. the BETTER approach would be to use something like a PowerShell script to pull the choices into a SQL database, which would be run on a scheduled task.
4. Alternatively, depending on how the CHOICE field was defined for use, it may be possible to change the column from being a CHOICE field to being a BCS ("external data") field, and point it to some external database table that can also be used
by this other thing... there are implications that may suggest that this approach is NOT desirable, but it may be worth considering
it should also be pointed out, that as far as integration goes, best practice is to NOT perform direct lookups across systems... integrated data points should be REPLICATED to a LOCAL copy, as to ensure that the related data is using relationships local
to the database. By doing so, if the remote system ever changes, the only change is in the integration... any application that's doing the lookup (using the LOCAL copy), or queries that utilize relationships (such as JOINs) will still continue working fine
(albeit they may be using outdated data until the integration is updated).
Scott Brickey
MCTS, MCPD, MCITP
www.sbrickey.com
Strategic Data Systems - for all your SharePoint needs

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