1. Create the login
First create a SQL Server login for your domain account.
CREATE LOGIN [your domain
account] FROM WINDOWS;
GO
your domain account has to be replaced with the domain account
you want to add. For instance your domain is called darth and the
user vader than it would be CREATE LOGIN [darth\vader] FROM
WINDOWS; GO;
To check if the login was successfully created type in
SELECT NAME FROM
SYS.SERVER_PRINCIPALS
GO
and the domain user should appear in the result list.
2. Grant sysadmin rights
You can retrieve a list of server roles using the sp_helpsrvrole procedure.
So to add the user to the sysadmin server role group type
the following (example is still domain darth user vader)
SP_ADDSRVROLEMEMBER
'darth\vader', 'sysadmin'
GO
Done.
Quit SQLCMD and open a non elevated instance with your domain
account. Type in select user_name() and the result should be
dbo.