This blog is not about avoiding logging in using the sa login. Hopefully we all know about this, and work towards avoidning this practice. Instead I want to talk about using sa, but not to login (authenticate), but as owner for jobs and databases. I want keep these thing de-individualized - so we avoid things like person A leaving the company and ...

In what user context does a job run? I recently found myself in a forum discussion and gave my stock reply, later realizing that I haven't actually tested this for a long time (I used to demo this in class during 6.5 courses - when we actually had time for slight diversions). Lets start with my assumptions: Job owned by sysadmin, TSQL ...