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  • August 28, 2013 at 10:23 am

    #1645650

    You cannot deny anything to a sysadmin.

    You could try a DDL trigger on CREATE DATABASE, but the problem with those is they are AFTER triggers and I'm not sure if they work for RESTORE database as well as CREATE. I suspect not because it can't be rolled back.

    Gail Shaw
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