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sqlserverdba
Yak Posting Veteran

USA
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Posted - 06/07/2009 :  21:05:14  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi,

I want to create user account similar to sa.Is there any risk to create user account and grant similar privileges or any other way to directly map with sa account?

Please advice.

SwePeso
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Sweden
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Posted - 06/07/2009 :  23:33:01  Show Profile  Visit SwePeso's Homepage  Reply with Quote
Yes.
The user can do anything SA can, such as drop tables, drop databases and so on...

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sqlserverdba
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Posted - 06/08/2009 :  13:02:00  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi,

What is the best practices to protect sa user account ?

When we create similar sa account which has securable additional properties option than sa account.

Can I make exactly same as sa account?

thx
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tkizer
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Posted - 06/08/2009 :  13:34:32  Show Profile  Visit tkizer's Homepage  Reply with Quote
To create an "sa" account, you just need to grant a login sysadmin fixed server role.

Tara Kizer
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sqlserverdba
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Posted - 06/08/2009 :  14:50:18  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hi Tara,

When I go to grant sysadmin, system also grant public server role also.

Please advice.
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tkizer
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Posted - 06/08/2009 :  15:05:06  Show Profile  Visit tkizer's Homepage  Reply with Quote
So what's the problem?

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