• In 2005 and above you cannot remap the dbo user to a login other than sa, and you cannot drop sa.

    I too would like to know if this was once a SQL 2000 database.

    What does this return?

    USE [your_database];

    GO

    SELECT SUSER_NAME(principal_id)

    FROM sys.database_principals

    WHERE name = 'dbo';

    GO

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