As I said earlier, we are not worrying about OS admin or users having OS admin roles. We do not want to blame any one in an organization on any data leakage.

The issues is here, why MS is allowing SQL users (sa & sever admin role users) to attach a MDFs to any SQL intances or MSDEs . Here is the issue. Rather than we looking into OS admins, as a DBA, we should have somethiong in place to protect the data file . Otherwise, I would say SQLk is not a secured database.

Hope MS will come up with somesort of protection in their future version to overcome this issue.

I believe you will agee with me on this issue 🙂

Rgds/