The dbo user is a special user principal in each database. All SQL Server administrators, members of the sysadmin fixed server role, sa login, and owners of the database, enter databases as the dbo user. The dbo user has all permissions in the database and cannot be limited or dropped.

That is the Schema that the table is being placed in. This is not actually required as dbo is the default schema and any objects referenced without schema specified are assumed to be in dbo. If you were to create your own schema eg: CREATE SCHEMA [MySchema] AUTHORIZATION [dbo] You would then have to reference any objects in it as [MySchema ...

May 23, 2014 · As durilai says, dbo is the "default" schema for SQL Server (it always exists). However, note that different users can have different default schemas (if more than one exists). If you make reference to a table without specifying the schema, then SQL Server will search in your default schema for it (and the same goes for any other objects).

Jan 5, 2020 · the other server level securables (endpoint, server role, login) are far seldom used, moved around etc. database level securables usually end up by being owned by dbo (the database principal), or some other database principal, and …

Sep 5, 2019 · The image bellow might help you explain the existance of the dbo user. It's from a brand new instalation of SQL Server. Notice that there is no dbo login among the ones in the Logins folder. Yet there is a dbo user on each of the system databases including model (what means there will be a dbo user on every database you create).

Aug 13, 2009 · The SQL Server engine always parse the query into pieces, if you don't use the prefix definitely it going search for object in similar name with different users before it uses [dbo]. I would suggest you follow the prefix mechanism not only to satisfy the best practices, also to avoid performance glitches and make the code scalable.

Dec 9, 2016 · You can run the following, which will generate a set of ALTER sCHEMA statements for all your talbes: SELECT 'ALTER SCHEMA dbo TRANSFER ' + TABLE_SCHEMA + '.' + TABLE_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_SCHEMA = …

Oct 12, 2017 · However, when restoring a Database, either from another system or from the same Instance but from a DB that was backed-up / detached prior to one of those 2 SQL commands being executed to change the owner, then upon RESTORE or attach, there will be a mismatch between the owner_sid column in sys.databases and the "dbo" sid in sys.database ...

The SQL Server Team does show it as a best practice and published an article about it: SQL Server Best Practices – Implementation of Database Object Schemas. As far as your other question regarding who should own it: dbo schema is owned by the dbo user account.

I found this article (specific to SQL Server 2000), but the table on that page is confusing. It mentions db_owner and "owns the database" as two distinct possibilities for what role a user can have. For example, the table states that if a user sam , who is in the db_owner role, runs the query CREATE TABLE [test3](abc int) , it will be owned by ...