What Windows login account is SQL user sa

  • I use EM to run many jobs, some of them involves access disk files on the SQL server machine or on another SQL Server, or central storage. If the user registered in EM is sa, what Windows user account it is mapped to when access local or remote files.

    I failed many jobs in the past due to OS access privileges. I guess many are due to the sa user. However, if I use OS authentication to register in EM, I run into problem using linked server in procedures.

    Any good way to aloow both ?

    Thanks

  • Windows account for sa is the sql server startup account.

    For scheduled jobs, it is sqlserveragent startup account.

  • in addition to wz700's reply :

    regarding the linked server : it depends on how the linked server is defined at your local server. Check the security settings with EM\Secutity\Linkedservers right-click the linked server check properties and go to the security tab.

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  • Thanks. Thal all help.

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