Is this possible to do during installation of express ? Is it possible at all ?
Want to use sql security mode (mixed). I need to build a trial version of software package and want real simple sql server passwords.
how do I disable "strong password required"??? because I want to allow to add a user with the config-tool with no strong password
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I am attempting to upgrade an MSDE SP4 named instance to SQL Express SP1 and it is failing with a message that I must use Windows Authentication to continue the upgrade. The thing that I noticed is that when I specify an '@' sign in my sa password the upgrade fails, but if I specify a "#' sign instead the upgrade runs successfully.
The strong password rules appear to be that
1) the password must be greater than 8 characters
2) at least one character must be from 3 out of 4 of the following:
a) lower case characters
b) upper case characters
c) numeric
d) special characters (non-alphanumeric)
If I install the MSDE SP4 named instance with the password abcd@ABCD the upgrade to SQL Express SP1 fails with the message above. If I install the MSDE SP4 named instance with password abcd#ABCD the upgrade works.
The command I am using to install the MSDE instance is
"setup.exe INSTANCENAME=<instance> SAPWD=<password> SECURITYMODE=SQL"
To upgrade to SQL Express SP1 the command is
"setup.exe UPGRADE=SQL_Engine INSTANCENAME=<instance> SECURITYMODE=SQL" which fails when the sa password contains the "@".
Any help with this issue would be appreciated.
Thanks
I urgently need tom use SP3a upgrade the instance of SQLServer200MSDE runing on my local machine but I am having problems in doing so.My first problem is that when I start the set up procedure I get themessage"A strong SA password is required for security reasons. Please useSAPWD switch to supply the same"Currently the sa password isAbc/def/ghk1Which I think is a 'strong password' according to the microsoft rulesathttp://www.microsoft.com/resources/...sword_tips.mspxI would be grateful if someone could confirm that Abc/def/ghk1 is astrong password.If anyone could point me to some published informal help on installingSP3a then that would also be very helpful (I do of course have the MSread me file). If anyone has a sample command line entry for theupdating then I would find that extremely useful. There is oneinstance of MSDE on my machine, named NetSDK.Best wishes, John Morgan
View 6 Replies View RelatedWhen I try to install SQL Server I get the follwing message when I click on the installation file :
A strong SA password is required for security
reasons.
Please use SAPWD
switch to supply the same. Refer to readme
for more details.
Setup will now exit.
I've checked the readme but can't really find any info on how to fix this.
I don't know what password this SA password is nor how to change it.
Can anyone help me out?
Hi all Im used to work on mysql and in that Db you can call the password function to encrypt password, so that people browsing directly the db can't see others password.
What is the best way to do this in sqlserver ?
Can someone tell me how to encrypt my sa password when using this in a
DTS package?
Thanks,
Is there any way to encrypt the sensitive data stored in a database?
It can be done with different programming languages, but can it be done directly on the database management system?
any good suggestions on hashing or encrypting the sensitive data stored in the database?
thank you
I have an Access .adp application and I need to store the passwords encrypted. I see that there are unsupported functions pwdencrypt() and pwdcompare() in SQL server 2K.
Are there any other functions or methods in SQL Server 2000 that could be called that would provide this capability?
Hi
I want to encrypt the password. Can u suggest some Encryption algorithms for Password protection?
Thanks
Is there a way to do this at the server level?
Thanks
I am unable to encrypt password of sqlserver database in XML file by Package Configuration in SSIS.
Howdy!
Couple quick questions:
1) How much does setting encryption cost in terms of speed of querying and cpu usage?
2) If encryption is not set, is the password "encrypted" when its sent with the initialization routine?
Thanks in advance!
What is best way to encrypt password field in sql server 2000?.
Is there any system stored procedure to encrypt password?.
What kind of algorithm password encryption method uses?.
I would like to be able to store user network passwords in a database table and be able to encrypt and decrypt using stored procs. Could anyone give me a pointer on this.
Many thanks
I currently have a login page in asp.net 2.0 linked to a SQL 2005 database table that holds the usernames and passwords. At present, I am on an "honor system" where I do have access to the passwords of the other users but would like to change it so that I cannot know what the users' passwords are. Thank goodness that there is no personal information within the pages and the logins were created to keep a log of who logs in and what not. However, I would like to soon hold more personlized information, hence the need to encrypt each user's password even from myself.
I have read up on Symmetric Encryption for SQL 2005 but I would like to know if there is anything else available, any good proven methods that someone else has already tried.
Also, while testing out Symmetric Encryption, I noticed that I have to supply the encryption password for the decryption. However, if I know what the password for the encryption/decription is, does it not defeat the purpose of having the encryption at all, in terms of the "Admin" having access to sensitive information? Just curious if I understood the concept correctly or not.
Thanks in advance to all.
Hi!
Could you help me how could I encrypt an SQL Express database with a password?
The lines I currently use:
ssconn.ConnectionString = "Data Source=.SQLEXPRESS;Integrated Security=True;"
CreateDatabase = "CREATE DATABASE i ON (NAME = i, FILENAME = '" & ssceconfilename & "')"
Dim myCommand As New SqlCommand(CreateDatabase, ssconn)
myCommand.ExecuteNonQuery()
I intend to encrypt the whole database structure so that nobody could see in.
I managed to do the encryption with SQL CE 2.0, but how to do it with express?
Thank you!
Hi!
Could you help me how could I encrypt an SQL Express database with a password?
The lines I currently use:
ssconn.ConnectionString = "Data Source=.SQLEXPRESS;Integrated Security=True;"
CreateDatabase = "CREATE DATABASE i ON (NAME = i, FILENAME = '" & ssceconfilename & "')"
Dim myCommand As New SqlCommand(CreateDatabase, ssconn)
myCommand.ExecuteNonQuery()
I managed to do the encryption with SQL CE 2.0, but how to do it with express?
Thank you!
Hi All,
We have here a WinForms Application on laptops that uses SQL Express as its database. Initially all was going well, then it was decided that the laptop Hard Drive should be encrypted. Thats when the fun started.
It is now very hit and miss as to whether we can connect to SQL and service pack 2 will not install.
So now to the question :-
Does anyone know if there are any compatablity issues with SQL 2005 Express and hard disk encryption (particularly BeCrypt).
Thanks
Steve
Hi..
I try to develope an Application with .NET C# 2.0, which uses a SQL Express Edition Database. As you know, I can give the SQL Server a password an username (or Windows auth.).
Wenn the user has already installed SQL eXpress Edition, he can access to database and change the data manual.
Is there anyway to set password to a database in SQL Server (Express)?
Thanks..
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I am a Newbie to programming and databases and would like to create a simple program for doing full text searching on a SQL database.
I have downloaded and installed Visual Basic 2005 Express, Web Developer 2005 Express, and SQL Server 2005 Express. I have watched several hours of video tutorials and done numerous tutorials. I feel I am making progress and having a lot of fun. My machine is running XP home edition.
I have found the following resource that looks like a good place for me to start with creating a full text search program:
€œSQL Server 2005 Books Online
Item Finder Sample
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms160844.aspx
However I am stuck at the beginning with trying to €œgenerate a strong name key file.€? I don€™t know how to €œopen a command prompt€? (I did confess to being a Newbie!!). I searched the database for this forum and found a relevant thread stating that €œSQLCMD is the command-line utility for SQL Server and is included with SQL Server 2005 Express Edition.€? I found the SQLCMD program on my computer but when I opened it, it does appear to provide the options listed below in the tutorial (i.e., €œclick start,€? €œPoint to all programs,€? etc.).
Initially here is what I need based on the first section of the tutorial:
Building the Sample
If you have not already created a strong name key file, generate the key file using the following instructions.
To generate a strong name key file
Open a Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 command prompt. ClickStart, point toAll Programs, point toMicrosoft .NET Framework SDK 2.0, and then clickSDK Command Prompt.
-- or --
Open a Microsoft .NET Framework command prompt. ClickStart, point toAll Programs, point toMicrosoft .NET Framework SDK 2.0, and then clickSDK Command Prompt.
Use the change directory command (CD) to change the current directory of the command prompt window to the folder where the samples are installed.
Note:
To determine the folder where samples are located, click theStartbutton, point toAll Programs, point toMicrosoft SQL Server 2005, point toDocumentation and Tutorials, and then clickSamples Directory. If the default installation location was used, the samples are located in <system_drive>:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL Server90Samples.
At the command prompt, run the following command to generate the key file:
sn -k SampleKey.snk
Important:
For more information about the strong-name key pair, see "Security Briefs: Strong Names and Security in the .NET Framework" in the .NET Development Center on MSDN.
How do I complete this initial step of generating a strong name key file for the tutorial? I guess I am missing something simple and once I get past this I will be able to complete the tutorial. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
I have created two user defined functions for encryption and decryption using passphrase mechanism. When I call encryption function, each time I am getting the different values for the same input. While I searching a particular value, it takes long time to retrieve due to calling decryption function for each row.
best way to encrypt and decrypt using user defined functions.Below is the query which is taking long time.
SELECT ID FROM table WITH (NOLOCK)
                    WHERE dbo.DecodeFunction(column) = 'value'
When I try to use symetric or asymetric encryption, I am not able to put "OPEN SYMETRIC KEY" code in a function. So, I am using PassPhrase mechanism.
Hi,My computer crashed and I have had to reinstall all the software. However, when I try to reinstall MSDE (server), it keeps telling me a strong SA password is required and to use the SAPWD to switch it. I cannot find SAPWD files or anyway to change this. After I get this message, the installation process stops. I didn't have this issue the first time I installed everything back in the beginning of September when the class started and before the computer crashed, I had no problem accessing a database using Web Matrix and the same server setup that I'm trying to install right now.If anyone can help me, I would be more than grateful.Thank youCarolyn (Crowbare)
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Got aprivate webserver with two main sites which generate maximum 800.000 pages vieweved a day...
these are running ASP and SQL Server 2000
FREQUENTLY, SQL Server doesn't respond and seems to be blocked, wich cause all my pages to be unreachable by the fact that my header file open a SQL connection in every page.
I've read a lot of documentation about SQL blocking or deadlocking but shame on me i don't really understand how to easily identify the reason of blocking and far more important, still don't kow the way to STOP these.
Is there a way to set a global parameter to STOP any SQL request wich is longer than 10 seconds let says... ?
I tried SET LOCK_TIMEOUT timeout_period but it seems we have to put it in EVERY transaction... not simple. Further more i tried it and it generated me a lot of errors (example : returning -1 for recordcounts after a request)...
Any help for a newbie SQL user to avoid these blocks ?
I have installed Visual Web Developer Express 2005 with Sql Server Express, I can login with window authentication,
but I want to create different user and password that I can use to access a database I have created,
can anybody help me how to do this ?
Thanks.
Hello,
I am trying to validate a user via a stored procedure. This works OK until I try to validate the password, at which point the validation fails (even though the password is OK). Below is my sproc. If I comment out AND m.Password = @Password the sproc is OK. I am passing in the password as a string when testing the sproc. Any ideas? J.
ALTER Proc [dbo].[pru_VerifyApproveUser]
@UserName nvarchar(256),@Password nvarchar(128),@ApplicationName nvarchar(256)AS
BEGIN
IF EXISTS(Select * from dbo.aspnet_Membership WHERE Email = @UserName)BEGIN DECLARE @UserId uniqueidentifierSELECT @UserId = NULLSELECT @UserId = u.UserId
FROM dbo.aspnet_Membership m, dbo.aspnet_Users u, dbo.aspnet_Applications aWHERE LoweredUserName = LOWER(@UserName) ANDu.ApplicationId = a.ApplicationId AND LOWER(@ApplicationName) = a.LoweredApplicationName ANDu.UserId = m.UserId AND m.Password = @Password
-- If @Userid is Null - then the above credentials are not satisfied-- e.g. wrong password/username combo..
IF (@UserId IS NULL)
BEGIN
RETURN 2
END
Update dbo.aspnet_Membership
SET IsApproved = 1
WHERE Email = @UserName
RETURN 1
END
END
Help!!
I used to have an Access database which had tables for users, roles, actions etc.
This was used by a C++ client app (using ADO) which logged in, got the user ID and password (by raising a login dialog ) and then checked these against a user table and then assigned the roles and possible actions.
Now we have SWL Server Express 2005 - NT Authorisation - how do I get/pass the user ID to the C++ Application so it can get the associated roles? Seems silly to have 2 logins.
Better still can I do away with the App's User table or make its password column invisible to all users bar Admin and the C++ App?
Hi all,
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I just tried to perform the install of SQLServer 2005 Express on a Win 2003 SP2 machine and the install failed with the rejection of the SA password. Currently, our pwd is 1 uppercase letter, 4 lowercase letters and 1 number for a total of 6 characters. Other installations on Win 2003 SP1 have worked fine in the past. I read in a recent version of Books Online that the SA pwd guidelines might have recently changed and that 8 characters might now be required.
My question is: do these new 8 character guidelines apply only to the sa pwd or to all logins?
Thanks!
Mike
I can get to the DB and find the user account, but I see nowhere to change the password? My app requires a password that meets Windows Security requirements and the one that was initially created is not long enough.....
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Is it possible to double click the sql server express installer, it will install sql server 2005 in silent mode, set sa password..
Just want alternative of command installation on double click
setup.exe /qb INSTANCENAME=<InstanceName> SAPWD=<StrongPassword>
is it possible
thanks in advance
Hi,
I have a little question. I searched google, and could not find good answer for this one.
I have a stored procedure that returns two tables. Usually I generate a dataset out of a stored procedure by dragging it to the dataset.
When I drag this one it creates a DS with only one table, the first one. How can I make it use both tables?
Thank you.