My 'sa' account is locked out and the BUILTINAdministrators account does not have the sysadmin role. I removed the sysadmin role from BUILTINAdministrators for security reasons and before I could create a new account with the sysadmin role I fat fingered the sa password and locked it out. How can I get myself out of this mess.
Any help would be welcomed.
I have a problem that i can't log on sql server as the account is lock out. I don't know why it is locked out as this is the first time i log on. Anybody has this experience? Thank you very much!
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have been using SQL2000 for a number of years and the company I work for needs a new system so I decided to install SQL2005.
I installed SQL2005 without any problems and set a complex password for SA. I tried to log on and had to make several atempts as I remmebered the password after the SA account got locked out with the following message:
Login failed for user 'sa' because the account is currently locked out. The system administrator can unlock it. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 18486).
The problem I have is I cannot log onto SQL at all as it is not logging on with windows authentication either!
How do I unlock the SA account or do I have to reinstall SQL?
Thanks
Brian
Just wondering if there is any query which can give me report of locked account in SQL 2008. I know there are options like:-
1) Can go in ssms--security--account and right click and select status. This is applicable to individual account.
2)SELECT LOGINPROPERTY('accountid', 'IsLocked'). Also applicable to individual account
3) SELECT name,type_desc,is_disabled,modify_date,default_database_name from sys.server_principals order by type_desc
Generate the report but give the informatio as is_disabled. But I think is_disabled <> is_locked.
Sometimes I have to unlock the account 3 or 4 times a day. This is getting annoying. Why would my service account keep getting locked out?
View 3 Replies View RelatedGreetings,
I receive an error message in event log when i try to connect to the Database Server using ODBC on a client machine. The database server is running on Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition and the client machine is Windows XP Professional. Following is the error message from the event log:
2147467259 - [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Login failed for user 'sa' because the account is currently locked out. The system administrator can unlock it.
What causes the error to occur and how to resolve it?Appreciate for your assistence.
Thanks and regards,
Viknes
During install of SQL Server 2005, we can of course use a domain account or the built-in system account for running the services. I lean toward domain for obvious reaons but would like to know a +/- to each option and why I'd choose one over the other and what consequences or limitations one may encounter if I choose one over the other.
View 6 Replies View RelatedI have been running a script in SQL Server 2000 as sa also as a Active Directory user who has administrator rights (I tested both approaches SQL Server then Windows Authentication) in Query Analyser which grants execute rights to the stored procedures within the database instance and Query Analyser does not give any errors when I run the script. I have made sure that each transaction has a go after it. I then return to Enterprise Manager, check the rights (I apply them to roles so that when we create another SQL Server user we just grant him/her rights to the role) and discover that the role has not been granted the rights. I seems to be occurring only with 2 of the procedures. Is there a known bug that might be causing this?
yours sincerely
Craig Hoy
I have several DTS jobs that runs well as a job with my nt login account for the SQL agent service startup account, but if I use the System account
they fail with this error.
" Error opening datafile: Access is denied. Error source: Microsoft Data Transformation Services Flat File Rowset Provider"
The data has change access to the System account under the NT security.
Thank you in advanced.
Jorge
Hi all, i hope you can help me.
Basically a dts package has been setup that pulls in data from another companies server, this data requires to be on-demand i.e individual users can pull in updates of the data when they require it.
I am using xp_cmdshell and dtsrun to pull in the data. This obviouly works fine for me as i am a member of sysadmin.
Books online quotes " SQL Server Agent proxy accounts allow SQL Server users who do not belong to the sysadmin fixed server role to execute xp_cmdshell"
So i went to the SQL Server Agent Properties 'Job System' tab and unchecked 'Non-sysadmin job step proxy account' and entered a proxy account.
The proxy account has been setup as a Windows user with local administrator privilages and even a member of the sysadmin server role - just in case.
Now when i log onto the db with my test account - a non-sysadmin - and attempt to run the stored proc to import the data i recieved the message 'EXECUTE permission denied on object 'xp_cmdshell', database 'master', owner 'dbo' '
hmm... so basically i have either misunderstood BoL or there is something not quite right in my setup.
I have search the net for a few days now and yet i can find no solution.
Can anyone help?
Hi there,BOL notes that in order for replication agents to run properly, theSQLServerAgent must run as a domain account which has privledges to loginto the other machines involved in replication (under "SecurityConsiderations" and elsewhere). This makes sense; however, I waswondering if there were any repercussions to using duplicate localaccounts to establish replication where a domain was not available.Anotherwords, create a local windows account "johndoe" on both machines(with the same password), grant that account access to SQL Server onboth machines, and then have SQL Server Agent run as "johndoe" on bothmachines. I do not feel this is an ideal solution but I havecircumstances under which I may not have a domain available; mypreliminary tests seem to work.Also, are there any similar considerations regarding the MSSQLSERVERservice, or can I always leave that as local system?Dave
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a situation that I have discovered in our QA database that I need to resolve. When I looked at the Activity Monitor for our server, I discovered that a process is running under a domain user account for one of our .Net applications. The problem is that that domain user account has not been created as a SQL login account on the server. I am trying to figure out how someone can log in to the database server with a domain user account that has not been added to SQL Server as a login account.
Does anyone have any insight on this? I don't like the idea of someone being able to create domain account that can access the database without me granting them specific access.
- Larry
I am using the desktop sqlexpress 2005 and I was experimenting with the account setting and I accidentally disabled my access. I am using windows authentication and there is no password, just the windows login name.
How can I reactivate the login for this connection. Any help is greatly appreciated.
I am writing in regard to this post: http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=52798
Which I found while searching for a best-practice way to implement record locking in my application.
In the above referenced post the user asks “How can I tell if a row is locked?�, and the reason for asking is that the user wants to implement logic similar to this:
Select a row for editing.
If the row has been locked by a different user, display the information as read only.
Otherwise, lock the row and allow the user to edit (allow others to read).
My questions are exactly the same as the original poster of the above thread. I was surprised to see that the general response to the post was the user was taking a wrong approach and that sql server is unable to work as the user requested. I think the approach is both correct and desirable (I used it extensively as a foxpro programmer) and I would like further confirmation that sql server does not support it.
One of the things I don’t understand is the interaction between transactions and locks. Is it not possible to lock a row without initiating a transaction? Bottom line, my goal is this:
Select a row for editing.
If the row has been locked by a different user, display the information as read only.
Otherwise, lock the row and allow the user to edit (allow others to read).
However I get there is fine with me.
Hi to all,
I need help about access to mdf file. I don't know when, but sometime my application, build with vbnet, return an error on mdf database access, that is access denied, also winxp return on the mdf file the message "process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process" if I try to delete the mdf file. I can delete the file only if I stop the procss sqlservr.exe from taskmanager. I don't use instruction to open and close database, I use dataset, datatable and sql build in datatable.
Someone can say me why sqlservr.exe don't unlock the mdf file when I close my application?
Thanks..
Hi,
When I am deleting records from a table, I am not able to select or insert records from the table. This particular table needs to be used by more users and very frequently used.
Could anyone please help with ideas.
Thanks in advance
John Jayaseelan
I am having an interesting problem that has got me completely baffled. I restored a database from the .bak file of another database on my server to use as a test DB for an App. upgrade before upgrading the live side. The problem I have run into is that the application will not allow login into the DB unless the Trusted Connection user has dbo privs. The DB is not set for dbo use only acoording to sp_dboption. It is not this way on the live side and tech support for the app. and I both think it has to strictly do with something in the SQL permissions. Any Ideas on what could have happened? Is the restored DB hanging onto something from the original DB that could be causing this? The connection works great on the live side on the older version, and I have seen it work in the newer version as well. Any takers?--Dallas
View 2 Replies View RelatedI just brought SQL Server 2005 up on Windows Server 2003 a few days ago. Everything was going great up until a few minutes ago. I tried to connect using the Management Console and get the message
Login failed for user 'sa' because the account is currently locked out. Your administrator can unlock it.
It's the administrator that's locked out!
Do I have to reinstall SQL Server all over again?
My mdf and ldf files were locked by windowsXP. Iam not using these files in anywhere of my two instances of databases.
Even after stopping SQL SERVER 2005 iam not able to cut or copy those files.
How to recover this files.
HelloI have a stand alone Java application that uses SQL Server 2000 on thesame machine. Sometimes, when we run the applications and follow acertain steps, the SQL server locks some of the table. At that point oftime, if we try to query Select * on those table, in Query Analyzer, itjust keep spinning and doesn't return anything. That tells me that thetables are locked. If I close the application then it frees up theconnection and those tables are accessible again.My question is how do I find out how and what query/update causes thetables to be locked. Is there a tool (some kind of a profiler) that cantell me what was the last insert/update/delete quesry was run before itgot locked?Please help me.
View 2 Replies View RelatedMy sql server just dissalowed every connection attempt made. All the allowed users were denied permission, including the computer's admins. I changed the permissions and tryed everything I could think of but it wont let me back in. Can someone help ASAP?
View 1 Replies View RelatedHi Champs,
Is there a way to recover from a account lockout in SQL2005?
I cannot connect to "Database Engine" in "SQL Server Management Studio",
error: login failed...18456. Access denied.
And I also cannot start the "SQL Server agent service"
Any possebility to recover without reinstall?
/Many thanks
We had a package fail when trying to get 3 buffers. I also saw another message saying "18430 buffers were considered and 18430 were locked. "
1. Why are buffers locked in SSIS
2. How can i reduce the number of locked buffers.
This one in question was a very large lookup.
Thanks
Glenn
I am a beginner working on a webclass project using VBLive as a model. Today I have lost any ability to enter Enterprise Manager for SQL7 although my SQL7 Server is still running and operational with the webclass application.
When I try to start the enterprise manager, i get a mmc.exe-application error
Have I locked myself out somehow? How to get back in control?
Thanks.
Hi,
I've started 2 dbcc processes using SQL Scheduler overnight. and I've got
one is flagged rollback and the other is still running, they are blocked
together. I've tried to kill them using kill <spid> without success.
How can I delete this processes ? Shall I shutdown the server ?
Thanks
Herve
When I try to process a cube on olap I receive this error message:
Could not lock object (user xxx on computer yyy has locked 'xxxxxxxx'
I already tried to find an option to unlock the cube and I do a restart of SQL service.
I'm worryed about my job !!!! :eek:
Please, HELP ME !!!! :(
Hi all
First post - please be gentle :)
I have had a search of the forum and couldn't find a solution to this one.
On a clean install of SQL Server 2000 on a W2003 server we setup our database as normal, selected appropriate priveldges for everyone and all was well.
Until an adminsitraor accidently turned builtinadministors account to DENY access. We are now locked out of EM and I can't think of a way back in.
We can't access the database via the sa account as it is set to Windows Autentication, and we can't re-register the database for the same reason.
No other user has sufficent priveldges to update the master db or change authenticaion, or even log into EM for that matter.
I think we are snookered, but any thoughts are welcomed.
Cheers
K2
I can't open a table that has 5 records. Is there any kill processes that can unlock the table for me?
View 2 Replies View RelatedHi All
New to sql server .
Have setup several pilot installations using merge replication between sql server mobile and sql server 2005. All has been perfect for over a week in all locations. last night one of the ocations stopped updating. Upon further investigation all devices kept throwing errors: "The database is currently synchronizing with the server". So I left for a further 2 hours with no change. The replication process usually takes abot 1 second and never take more than 3 or 4 seconds. There was no change to the data at all in this case either. I fixed the issue by restarting the whole server.
It would seem that there was some kind of lock on the database. Being new to sql server my question is:
Is there a way to properly diagnose the cause (I looked in the system event log and found nothing).
Is there a way to get notified if this occures again.
We are plannng hundreds of similar installations and cannot constantly monitor all of them in the hope of finding this issue again.
Regards
Nick
I am facing a problem in SQL SERVER 2005, 3 stored procedures seem to have a padlock on them and when i right click and the modify option is disabled.
I have tried logging in as SA and it seems to be the same problem, it is a database which someone else developed, but I need to modify it.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Harp
Hi Folks,
When I create a Database and try to copy the MDF file, I get a message to say that the Database is locked or in use by another user.
Seems like maybe I am not doing a 'Save' operation - although I can't find one ?
If I shut down the PC and restart it, then the MDF File is freed up, although when I try to open it, there is something wrong with it.
I'd appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks a lot.
Barry
Hi
I am reasonably new to this so bear with me.
I have a copy of a SQL Server 2000 Database, and would like to see what the stored procedures are doing (as I think it is wrong).
in Server Management Studio the stored procedures have a lock symbol on them and when I try and view them I get the message:
TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
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Script failed for StoredProcedure 'dbo.sp_procedure'. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo)
For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=9.00.1399.00&EvtSrc=Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.ExceptionTemplates.FailedOperationExceptionText&EvtID=Script+StoredProcedure&LinkId=20476
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Property TextHeader is not available for StoredProcedure '[dbo].[sp_procedureprocedure]'. This property may not exist for this object, or may not be retrievable due to insufficient access rights. The text is encrypted. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo)
This was developed by someone else, but I need to see it.
My question is, is there any way i can see the text of this stored procedure?
Thanks
Will
Hi
I want to know if is there any way to check a locked row for another process using a ID row in a table. I was looking for a query over sys.dm_tran_locks, but didnt get the ID for the locked row.
My app must send a message to user if another is procesing the same row, not only wait for unlock.
Any suggestions?
Thank you