I agree - I have seen some very useful info on here about DBAs stopping Windows Admin users from having SQL SA access. Here Windows Admin users are talking about stopping DBAs from...

Thanks Terry. I'm a great believer in trust - coupled with change control and auditing!

Thanks Grasshopper, and thanks to everybody who replied to this post.

Regards, H

Thanks Mark.

The server boys are telling my manager SQL DBAs only need database owner privilges on the databases and not SA on SQL Server.

Regards, H

Thanks Scott. Any info or real life experience on this topic is useful to me.

Regards, H