Thanks Lynn, clearly you are not willing or able to answer my question. I appreciate your suggestions.

You said "First, I am concerned about users using SSMS as a normal tool for access databases" . To me, this read as you are assuming we are using the tool for Access databases, not "to access databases". I did not ask you to judge what we are doing with our data. I just want a simple answer to a simple question. My environment is probably very different from yours in that our data warehouse is FOR people to self serve their data through queries and cubes and PowerBI. I make sure that anyone writing queries is trained on T-SQL. At any rate, whether or not we query the database with SSMS or not is not relevant to my question. I also told you we cannot download and install software on our own machines.

Hopefully someone will simply answer the question.