It ' s a economics thing that they are trying to make political . Say 1 burger is made the demand for it might be $ 5 as demand would be higher and someone would be willing to pay $ 5 for it . If you produce more though the price demanded would decrease but at the same time the quantity demanded would increase . A supply and demand graph illustrates this . It ' s still dumb to equate that to politics and i fail to see how Marx has anything to do with it . <| sep |> Russia , Turkey , Turkey and Greece , Russia <| sep |> So now we ' re terrorizing children ? <| sep |> So , are all they ' re wanting is readwrite to some tables ? yesIs it their database ? It ' s the companies database of customer info . So it ' s used by literally thousands of people . A loss of the DB would cost millions . I ' m not clear why you wouldn ' t give them access to those tables , throw some triggers on them that audit every change made to the table , and let them access it via Access or whatever they wanna use . It ' s not that simple . The database is part of several applications , and it ' s inuse , live . If they fuck something up , it ' s not like we just roll it back from there . There are tens of thousands of transactions happening per hour . Fixing it would be like trying to repair a jet liner in flight . Good data we ' d want to keep would keep piling on before , during and after their fuckup . Further , we do not have full control of the database . Being a part of a commercial application , there are many things we cannot do with it as a result of the requirements of that application . Basically , it ' s got it ' s own backup tools and it ' s designed to use them . If you just adhock edit the tables directly , in the wrong way , the application itself will shit the bed . We run the risk of orphaning records , joining records we hadn ' t intended , etc . It ' s a very complicated database . There ' s quite a bit of difference between readwrite a few tables and admin access . Unfortunately , being a commercial application and DB , the tools we have that giveremove access are . less than ideal . It ' s literally all or nothing . Even worse , admin access to the database is literally 1 account . I couldn ' t even differentiate between what they ' ve done and what the real admins have done . And yes , we ' re looking at dumping the entire mess and switching to some inhouse open source app because this sort of stuff is killing us . The lack of control over this particular application is a nightmare .