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Solutions for reporting off of an EAV structured database?

Existing setup SQL Server 2005 with standard EAV table that users want to slice and dice with a BI tool (Cognos). Is there any hope that we can transform this data into a format that we can report ...
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Does separating VARCHAR values based on size have a performance gain?

I am working with a team that is trying to implement an EAV system. They have decided to split the attribute-value tables out by type and they are debating using different tables for different size ...