>>I'm working in a a place so locked down they want me to use SSRS to extract some data and export to another system but .
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>>I can't have access to the data or even a test version.
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>>A quote
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>>yes but thinking about it we shouldn’t have copies of finance data anywhere apart from live or test servers! you may have to develop “blind” and then ask the DBA team to deploy to UAT for you to test?
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>>WTF
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>Where is this company located, back in the USSR? :-)

My bet is US or UK. I've seen various degrees of paranoia in these countries, much less in others. Bordering on "you will paint a portrait of this lady but for security reasons you must not know how she looks". The actual span between the extremes (friendly vs paranoid) is that one thing (put the executable in place, build a connectstring, have it run as scheduled task) may take between two hours and six months.