disable sa account - is it being used?

  • Good morning,

    I want to disable the sa account across my estate. I would rather avoid finding out in a week this has stopped some process working & hope not to be called in at midnight by some app guy.

    Is there any way I can be sure this account isn't being used & disabling it won't cause an issue? I plan to check sysprocesses & the default trace.

    I guess the system processes like the lazy_writer which are listed as being logged in as sa in sysprocesses will continue to run?

    Forgive me if this has been dealt with elsewhere. I couldn't find anything.

    Thank you.

  • I would run a trace, for as long as possible on just activity relating to SA, save that info to a file/database and then do some good old fashion data mining....

    Link for info on creating a SQL server trace using SQL Server Profiler

    https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175047(v=sql.105).aspx

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