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I may just password protect the site
Depends how much you trust the rest of your group/etc?
Even if you trust them absolutely, I'd still getting into the habit of parametrising queries.
(Not sure about PHP, but with CFML the param-ing queries can further help performance as well, since it can cache one query execution plan for many queries, which is often more efficient.)
Oh, and whilst I'm thinking about it... since this is important data, you are backing up your database, right?
(Can be as simple as an automated mysqldump then zip the output and move somewhere.)
EDITED: 12 Dec 2008 20:35 by BOUGHTONP