Re: Alter User for domain user

David Walker (none@xxxxxxxx) writes:
I see that the IS group, which I am a member of, has the sysadmin fixed
role on the server. Maybe that's the problem.

Yes, as Tom said. This is exactly the heart of the matter. If you
are sysadmin on server level, you are always dbo in the database.

You can easily verify this by running this statement in the database of
your choice:

SELECT USER


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