I was asked to see if it's possible to prevent developers from using BIDS/SSDT, Visual Studio, SSIS or third-party
tool to pull data from production servers. It's ok for developers to us SSMS for read access to production servers,
but no pulling of prod data to his/her desktop or DEV servers. We do not want to revoke production read access
from developers, but we would like to prevent the extracting/pulling of production data by developers.
Is there such a way via group policy or whatever way possible? From top of my head, I think it's a "NO".
Thanks,
John
John