Find SQL Database Owner with T-SQL
Bradley Schacht is a Principal Program Manager on the Microsoft Fabric product team based in Saint Augustine, FL. Bradley is a former consultant, trainer, and has coauthored 6 SQL Server and Power BI books, most recently Learn Microsoft Fabric. As a member of the Microsoft Fabric product team, Bradley works directly with customers to solve some of their most complex data problems and helps shape the future of Microsoft Fabric. Bradley gives back to the community through speaking at events such as the SQLBits, Fabric Community Conference, PASS Community Data Summit, SQL Saturdays, Code Camps, and user groups across the country including locally at the Jacksonville SQL Server User Group (JSSUG). He is a contributor on SQLServerCentral.com and blogs on his personal site, BradleySchacht.com.
One thing that on occasion bugs me about PDW or APS or whatever it happens to be called this week is the lack of a UI to do things. I'm not one of those people who has to have a UI to perform operations. I have no problem creating databases, doing backups or creating tables through code. That being said there are times when a UI is helpful to just look up information. Just today I needed to find out who the database owner was and had to do so through T-SQL. If you look at the sys.databases table you will notice there is an owner_sid column but to the naked eye it is pretty useless. So here is what you need, wrap ownser_sid in syser_sname and you are good to go. Find the code below. Enjoy! SELECT suser_sname(owner_sid), * FROM sys.databases
