• Personally I prefer making the database owner 'sa'. It can't cause an inadvertent privilege increase, since sa is sysadmin always, it can't cause problems as will happen if a domain account owns a DB and the domain account is removed from AD, and it means that when dropping a login you don't have to worry about whether it owns any databases.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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