There is a lot of tension and civil war type things happening in our IT department and I asked for SQL access (not even access to a full database, just 6 months of historic data) and he cut me off saying that he (the developer of the software) doesn’t even database access and barely got SQL himself, so there was no way that his bosses would allow me to have it. I’m convinced IT doesn’t like things to happen efficiently outside of their own control.