Thank-you pmegan for your reply it's a very helpful information unfortunately I only have the custom password for the db so after creating a new user can't move-it to the read-only group, the privileges seems similar to the reportuser user but I maybe wrong as I'm not very experienced on db management, so I'm wondering if this user would have any access at all or too much access, as I'm looking for a read only user for reporting purpose what other option do I have, if any ?