Database & Object Ownership

The most ANNOYING thing is to come across a database that is still owned by the user that created it. In prior server versions, this was a big deal since users owned objects and ownership had to be changed before the user could be removed from the system. Therefore, if user named ford created a table named brands, the fully qualified table name would be ford.brands. In SQL Server 2005 and greater, this has changed with a default schema of dbo. All objects created in this schema are owned by…