Thank you Lynn. If I took it the wrong way, I apologize. It is often the case that people on forums like this immediately make judgments about the way things are being done before understanding the circumstances. I have a dba here who works for me who, when he got here, was appalled that we let ANYONE  query our databases directly because he believed all data should be accessed through an application. That's not what BI or data warehousing is about and he now understands that. Our data warehouse is a service that my team provides to our organization and although we do limit access appropriately, we have super users who are not developers who "mine" the data or at least do some pretty advanced analytics using queries and PowerBI. I understand that many organizations do not have super users who are not developers who can query appropriately. Anyway, I hope you have a nice holiday!