Property Owner is not available for Database '[databasename]'. This property may not exist for this object, or may not be retrievable due to insufficient access rights. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo)

This error sometimes appear while opening the properties of the database in most cases reason would be due to missing of database owner. Reason could be the current owner of the database is no longer valid it would have been removed from the server or would have been disabled or other reasons. So as the owner is not available SQL server will not allow us to see the properties of the database and will throw below error:

 

Property Owner is not available for Database '[databasename]'. This property may not exist for this object, or may not be retrievable due to insufficient access rights.  (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo)

 

For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=10.50.2500.0+((KJ_PCU_Main).110617-0038+)&EvtSrc=Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.ExceptionTemplates.PropertyCannotBeRetrievedExceptionText&EvtID=Owner&LinkId=20476

 

Once we change the owner of the database this issue will get fixed automatically. As we can’t access the property of the database through GUI we need to use the below command to change the owner of the database:

 

Sp_changedbowner ‘username’

 

The above command will change the owner of the current database. After changing the owner we will be able to see all the properties of the database.