That or limiting the access from the power users to prevent them from causing issues with large queries that might not be efficiently run.
That's It!!! Lock 'Em Down and Lock 'Em Out!!!:w00t:
Entire careers in database marketing have been made by building offline reporting systems to get around some IT's narrow viewpoint that power users should be restricted. Far better to move power users to an alternate system and assign resources to assist in optimizing performance on those systems. If these power users are any good at what they do, the business payback is easily quantifiable and of a very high order of magnitude.