If you can make a dataclip, you have access to the database. We've audited it for privilege escalation and put some simple shooting-yourself-in-the-foot protection in, but if you REALLY REALLY want to screw yourself over you can probably find a way.
The clever thing is having saved query results and a way to re-run the query. Besides that it's just a nice executable SQL pastebin with a good user auth strategy (integration into an existing system).
anyone know of an open source tool that approximates this? i'd love to build something like it at my company. would be used a ton.
I am guessing it is for your company intranet? If you are powering it with nginx, you can tack the postgres add-on (https://github.com/FRiCKLE/ngx_postgres/) and go from there.