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Asked: 2026-05-15T20:58:32+00:00

I am using SQL Server 2005 with Windows authentication. My login has administrator rights.

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I am using SQL Server 2005 with Windows authentication. My login has administrator rights. For my login I have a user mapped to a database with the default schema set to “my_schema”. My login is not the owner of the database. When I log on though, and try to execute a simple select statement on a table in “my_schema” without specifying the schema name, I get an invalid object error. This does not happen when I log on as a user with no admin privileges. What I think is happening is that SQL Server is changing the default schema to “dbo” because I have admin rights. Is there a way to work around this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Sysadmin role members always get defaulted to dbo. It is a designed behaviour and cannot be overruled.

    You are best off moving the user out of the Sysadmin role and back into the “normal” userspace

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