I've had this on display in my office for years...

I've had this on display in my office for years...

I agree with one of the earlier comments in that this sounds like an excuse to get rid of someone not to hire them.

Besides this sounds like more...

I also agree. While checking credentials is good sometimes, some of the brightest people I have known did not have degrees but they did things no one else could.

I...

Is there a system default for how BUILTIN\Administrators is usually populated?

For getting started w/T-SQL I found this book useful:

Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Programing by Example,  Guerrero and Rojas