Trekstuff wrote: Yes I am convinced. I can see it now: A bunch of execs at a board meeting firing up SSMS and just querying happily away If they want unlimited queries that is exactly what is needed and wrapping it in another app doesn't change that. And that is exactly the situation at a bank that I worked at. The VP in charge of the merchant credit services often (more than once a week) did custom queries directly into the production database.