Possible to CREATE EVENT NOTIFICATION with a different owner?
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09-12-2020 - |
Question
We are in the process of removing a previous dba login and he owns all the endpoints and event notification objects. Endpoints were easy to change; Event notification objects not so much.
I found this thread about changing the owner of an event notification object (you have to drop and recreate). I don't want to go through this process again if I can avoid it. I doubt it's possible, but outside of logging in as another user, can you create an event notification that runs as sa, etc.?
La solution
I thought that ALTER AUTHORIZATION
might offer a way to transfer ownership, but no, according to the docs (emphasis mine):
Ownership of the following entities cannot be transferred: <many things> and event notifications.
So, script them, drop them, and re-create them under a more generic account that is not tied to an employee.
This is similar to things like the ANSI_NULLS
setting for tables (which I dealt with recently re: persisted computed columns).