e4d4 (7/12/2015)
No, account that use SQL Agent must be a member of sysadmin role. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms191543.aspx
Not sure why this recommendation is being made by MS.
I have never granted sysadmin to the SQL agent account. It's part of the public group and that's about it.
Michael L John
If you assassinate a DBA, would you pull a trigger?
To properly post on a forum:
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/61537/