I am installing SQL Server 2008 on my development machine and during the install I am asked to assign accounts to the different services. What account should I use for the servi
If it's a dev machine, I generally just go with SYSTEM. Otherwise, I try to use a domain account, since I often need to kick off SSIS packages with SQL Server Agent, and it's nice if I can just use that service account instead of creating the proxies necessary.