datwungai (3/19/2013)
What exactly are you afraid of?
It's a former DBA that hates me because unlike him, I take my job seriously and won't give him sa permissions. He thinks because he "used to be a DBA at this company" that he's still entitled to the luxuries of sa rights without the responsibility of keeping the servers up and operational. Clear as mud?
I do like your work ethic! Just as mater of interest, why just simply not kill him? There are different options available: poison, knife, gun, box of dynamite at the end. Exterminate! :w00t:
On a serious note, if your users just an ordinary database/application users, your are absolutely right. Granting this permission is too generous for them. Saying that, they would hardly ever ask for this one anyway. However if your user is a developer and that is development or test environment , then this permission is very important as it allows to monitor server activity and performance. I can hardly see how access to server stats
effects "keeping the servers up and operational".
But again, if he rally hates you, just offer him cup of coffee or tea, then just add a bit of polonium 210 and your enemy will be destroyed! :hehe: