http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Content tagged Security, Rants, Other posted on SQLServerCentral.comen-us360sjones@sqlservercentral.com (Steve Jones)By default, all NT administrators of the domain that your SQL Server is installed in, have SA rights in every database. This presents interesting challenge for DBAs, political and technical. Does your NT administrator group need SA rights to every database? The answer is no. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Security/tipremoveadmin/168/2001/05/25http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Security/tipremoveadmin/168/Using the sa account in development is just plain dumb. Here are some reasons why! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Security/sarant/157/2001/05/08http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Security/sarant/157/