SA Password Lost In MS SQL 2005
Oct 3, 2007
I need to retrieve the SA Password through MS SQL 2005. The reason why is I am trying to connect a number of computers in the same building for an Address Book to be shared by everyone. I will be using the program, Addressinator! to do this. But I need to have the SA password in order to connect the computers.
I am running Windows XP. I have read a few instructions on how to retrieve or make a new password on the net, but most of it doesn't make sense to me.
For Example, this is one that I found:
To reset the sa password, you can make the following:
1. Login to the SQL Server box as the Administrator.
2. Run SQL Server Enterprise Manager. (I don't have the Enterprise Manager)
3. Right-click the server name and choose 'Edit SQL Server Registration properties'. (I can't find the properties!)
4. Choose 'Use Windows authentication' and click OK button.
5. Expand a server, expand a Security and click Logins.
6. Double-click the sa login and specify new password on the General tab.
I hope someone can help me out with this.
Thanks!
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Mar 15, 2007
Hello, I'm running an MS SQL 2005 database which supports our entire website and it's fairly huge. I seem to have lost the sa password for the database.
I COULD get it back if there was a way to convert the SQL 2005 DB to an SQL 2000 DB, seeing as how I found a password cracker for that version. Is there anyway to convert a 2005 DB back to a 2000 DB?
Does anyone have any other ideas they might want to lay on me?
I'm kind of sick about this... I'm usually a really good note-taker; In fact, I do have the sa password recorded in an IT database that I keep. Unfortunately the password just doesn't work. I've tried the caps lock and other variations, but the password just eludes me.
Thanks for your help,
Chris
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Mar 15, 2007
Hello, I'm running an MS SQL 2005 database which supports our entire website and it's fairly huge. I seem to have lost the sa password for the database.
I COULD get it back if there was a way to convert the SQL 2005 DB to an SQL 2000 DB, seeing as how I found a password cracker for that version. Is there anyway to convert a 2005 DB back to a 2000 DB?
Does anyone have any other ideas they might want to lay on me?
I'm kind of sick about this... I'm usually a really good note-taker; In fact, I do have the sa password recorded in an IT database that I keep. Unfortunately the password just doesn't work. I've tried the caps lock and other variations, but the password just eludes me.
Thanks for your help,
Chris
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May 8, 2001
Hello all,
My company took over a project that another company was building. The other company switched all the passwords for the system and the database right before they left. No one has the passwords to the system or the database. Is there a way I can dump the data, or re-mount the drives into a different machine and get the data? Or am I just screwed? I have physical access to the machine and I can do anything needed I just need this data asap!!
TIA
Sean Silvius
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Jul 14, 1998
Hi All,
I have lost the system administrator password for my test server which contains
inf. which I cannot afford to loose. The SQL server documents state that if
the password is lost , then a SQL re-installation will have to be done.
Is anyone aware of a way to reset the password for SA without reinstalling the
SQL server.
Matter is most URGENT.
Regards
Vedanth
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Jun 28, 2004
Hie,
do you know how can i find a lost user password with the sa connection.
What is the difference between the connection and the user ?
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Oct 7, 2004
thanks a lot
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Aug 2, 2006
Hello,
I import a package into Integration Services (it containt 3 ole db connections to SQL Server), then I schedule this into a job.
When I run the job, it failed !
For the connections, I use a sql user and, in the step that run package, I notice that the password isn't store
I add password in the connection string ("Password=password;") and when I rerun the job, it terminate with success.
My question is: Is it possible to store the password directly into the package and so avoid password encoding several times ?
Regards
Arnaud
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Jul 23, 2005
I just started a new job and no one seems to know the SA password.Here's my plan to change it:1. I've run a trace for a couple of days to verify that there are nojobs or processes that are connecting as SA and that would break if Ichanged the password.2. Before the changing the password I am going to bulk copy out thesysxlogins row for SA so that if things go wrong I can reinset the olddata with the old unknown password (will that work?).3. Log on to the console as Windows administrator and changing the SApassword.Does that make sense? Anyone have any other suggestions?Thanks.
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Oct 25, 2005
I forget my dts password for an dts on Sql 2000 SP3 .How can i reset or find my password for edit my DTS .I have db admin and sys admin user rights on this database.
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Mar 22, 2007
Hi to all!.
I tell you my problem...
I have an DB2 source and SQL destination. I have 2 ConnectionManager. One for DB2 (IBM DB2) and other for SQL. Both are of the OleDB type.
Well. I setup my connections and it work fine. Now i want to change my ConnectionManager for others sources or destinations. And I don't want to have to change the connection in more than forty packages.
For this, i have 2 XML configuration file in package configurations. One for connection. In this XML i have the connectionstring, user and password. These files are obtained in all the packages.
Well. If i change the connectionstring in this XML file configuration, only work fine the OLEDB for SQL. The conection for DB2 return the fail: "The AcquireConnection method call to the connection manager "_packagename_" failed with error code 0xC0202009."
I have proven to modify protectionLevel of the package to DontSaveSensitive. SQL work fine. DB2 fails. I have changed to EncryptSensitiveWithPassword. The same.
Why the packages obtain the data of connection of the configuration file for SQL and it does not work or with the configuration file for DB2.
This is bug?
Thanks to all!.
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Aug 4, 2006
I am using the Management Sudio Express and after I changed my domain password, I lost all of my SQL Server registrations.
I remember this was an old problem with SQL 2000 until a SP fixed it.
Any ideas?
-- VPDJ
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Apr 17, 2007
After designing a SSIS package in Visual Studio 2005 that had two connection manager defined to keep the password. After I deployed the package to a file system. I then Imported the .dtsx file after making a Integration Services connection in Sql Server Management Studio. When I tried to run the package it failed when it tried to make the connection. When I edited the connection manager connection string and added the password and the package ran fine but it does not retain the password!. I need to have this package scheduled to run daily so I need to know how to have the package keep the password in the connection string. I have seen other posts on this issue but not seen a good solution. Could someone point me to the proper MSDN article that would explain how to implement this ? Is it a SQL Server configuration issue or a property in Visual Studio SSIS design time ?
thanks.
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Jun 18, 2007
I am receiving the following error message when attempting to create a new SQL Authenticated login id.
Password validation failed. The password does not meet the requirements of the password filter DLL. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 15119)
I have four servers all running SQL Server 2005 SP2 on Windows 2003 Ent. SP1. Of the four servers, only one received the above error message using the same TSQL below.
CREATE LOGIN TEST_LOGIN WITH PASSWORD = 'pvif9dal' MUST_CHANGE, CHECK_EXPIRATION = ON
All four servers are in the same domain, which if I understand correctly, the password policies are therefore inherited at the OS level by the domain. The password being used is within the password policies of the domain.
Any ideas as to a root cause?
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Oct 4, 2007
Hello
I am creating a TABLE
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[TbTest](
[id_TbTest] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ,
[Title] [varchar](100) NULL,
) ON [PRIMARY]
when looking at the Column Properties in MS Server Management Studio I get :
Identity Specification = Yes
(Is Identity) = Yes
Increment = 1
Seed = 1
now if I want to make a copy of that database, importing datas and tables
I get :
Identity Specification = No
(Is Identity) = No
How can I avoid this problem ? my application is not working anymore
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[TbTest] WITH NOCHECK ADD
CONSTRAINT [PK_TbTest] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
[id_TbTest]
) ON [PRIMARY]
is not solving that problem
thank you
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Feb 26, 2007
I've had a VB 6 / SQL Server 2000 app running in a network enviroment for a couple of years now at a client of mine. Recently, he upgraded to the latest version of Quickbooks which installed SQL Server 2005 on the server. Now there is SQL Server 2000 and 2005 residing on the same server. My VB app still runs on the server but will not run on other machines. I can ping the server from the other machines. Has SQL 2005 taken over the port I was using or maybe has new security features that won't let me access SQL 2000 using my current connection string? Here is my current connection string:
mstrConnStr = "Provider=SQLOLEDB.1;Persist Security Info=True;User ID=" & strServerLogin & ";Password=" & strServerPW & ";Initial Catalog=" & strDBName & ";Data Source=" & strServer.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Keith
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Aug 21, 2007
I need help!
I have Outlook 2007 w/BCM running on XP Pro workstation connecting to a SBS 2003 R2 hosting my SQL 2005 database. I have two problems: First I can get the BCM to connect to the remote data but periodically the connection is lost and many times it requires a reboot to reconnect. Secondly related to teh first, I can never get MS Accounting 2007 to connect to the same server and database from my client.
I have already set up the server to use port 5356 via TCP amd added a hole through my client windows firewall for the same port. Both client and server are set to share files and printers.
Any suggestions?
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Apr 21, 2006
I converted a program from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005 all went well. I created a number of tables and stored procedures after the conversion. I backed up my .mdf and .idf files. I was having problems with SQL so I uninstalled and re-installed it. Once I re-installed it I could no longer display some tables and files. Since I am the dbo, I think I should be able to access them. There obviously is something I am missing, hopefully not the tables and sps.
I would appreciate any suggestions.
Thank you.
LitePipe
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Nov 15, 2006
Hi there,
I just upgraded from SQL2000 to 2005 and noticed that any DB engines you register do not get re-registerd when you restart the Management Studio, you have to reconnect every time you start Management Studio! SQL2000 used to keep your server connections.
Am i missing something or is this just how it works now!?
Thanks
Ben
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May 4, 2006
OS: Windows XP Pro, SP2
SQL: SQL Server 2005 (Server 9.0.2047) SP1
VS: Visual Studio 2005 RTM.050727-4200
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After upgrading our SQL Servers to SP1 we have lost the ability to debug .net CLR stored procedures. The debugging process worked fine until we installed the Service Pack. All other features we use test out fine after the upgrade. The only and very important feature that does not work is debugging CLR procs. In fact this problem is happening in every environment we have. Be it SQL2005 running on Windows XP SP2, Windows Server 2003 SP1, Window Server 2000 SP4. SQL Server remote or local on the machine doing the debugging. All 5 developer workstations with Visual Studio in virtual machines or installed on in base OS are behaving exactly the same. Every developer on our team has the exact same problem regardless of their configuration after the upgrade to the service pack 1. All developers and environments were working correctly before the upgrade.
Even building a new SQL box from scratch and installing all tools and creating a new clean database we fail with same error.
We have verified CLR Debugging is enabled for the database connection. We have dropped the connection and recreated it.
Here is an example of the output from the output window:
This is the output up to the CLR call
The thread 'sql_test2 [62]' (0x68c) has exited with code 0 (0x0).
The thread 'sql_test2 [62]' (0x68c) has exited with code 0 (0x0).
Auto-attach to process '[1072] [SQL] sql_test2' on machine 'sql_test2' succeeded.
Output AFTER the CLR Call
Auto-attach to process '[1072] sqlservr.exe' on machine 'sql_test2' succeeded.
'sqlservr.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'C:WINNTassemblyGAC_32mscorlib2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089mscorlib.dll', No symbols loaded.
'sqlservr.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL.1MSSQLBinnSqlAccess.dll', No symbols loaded.
'sqlservr.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'C:WINNTassemblyGAC_32System.Data2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089System.Data.dll', No symbols loaded.
'sqlservr.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'C:WINNTassemblyGAC_MSILSystem2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089System.dll', No symbols loaded.
'sqlservr.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'C:WINNTassemblyGAC_32System.Transactions2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089System.Transactions.dll', No symbols loaded.
'sqlservr.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'C:WINNTassemblyGAC_MSILSystem.Security2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3aSystem.Security.dll', No symbols loaded.
'sqlservr.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'C:WINNTassemblyGAC_MSILSystem.Xml2.0.0.0__b77a5c561934e089System.Xml.dll', No symbols loaded.
'sqlservr.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'CIS_Release6a', No symbols loaded.
'sqlservr.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'C:WINNTassemblyGAC_MSILMicrosoft.VisualBasic8.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3aMicrosoft.VisualBasic.dll', No symbols loaded.
'sqlservr.exe' (Managed): Loaded 'C:WINNTassemblyGAC_MSILSystem.Configuration2.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3aSystem.Configuration.dll', No symbols loaded.
Program Locks up with blank screen and hangs. If we stop the Debugging then the correct results will appear in the output window.
Column1
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<CIS><Header><MessageType>FosterParent</MessageType><Status>-1</Status><ErrorMsg><Code>-100</Code><Description>Requested Record Not Available</Description></ErrorMsg></Header></CIS>
No rows affected.
(1 row(s) returned)
@RETURN_VALUE =
Finished running [dbo].[qsp_FF_FD_FP_FosterParent].
Any ideas? TIA
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Mar 25, 2008
Hi everyone, I am trying to upgrade a 2000 DB to 2005 with SSIS Database Transfer.
I finally got it to work with an online transfer but the destination database has no primary keys, indexes or identity columns from the source DB.
What am I missing?
What other ways are there to upgrade a SS2000 DB to 2005?
Thank you.
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Dec 3, 2007
Hi all,
In the last one and half years, I used the Northwind Database in SQL Server Management Studio Express (SSMSE) to learn the programming of SqlConnections, Data sources, Database Exploere, ADO.NET 2.0, etc. via VB 2005 Express.
The Northwind Database in my SSMSE got lost very often, but I was not aware of it. How can I know where the Northwind Database is used or processed by my VB 2005 Express projects that were the examples of some tutorial books or my trial projects? How can I release the Northwind Database back to my SSMSE from the VB 2005 Express projects? Please help and advise.
Thanks in advance,
Scott Chang
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Mar 12, 2007
Hi guys,anybudy know the thing as title?And does sql server has the func. to transfer plain txt to encryt. text? Cheers, Elton
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Dec 14, 2005
How do you change the SA password in SQL Server 2005?
Thanks.
Doug
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Jan 29, 2007
I have forgotten password of user sa in sql server 2005.
But if authentication is window . I still login, and do work normal.
So how to solve problem ,if authentication is sql server.
Thank you very much.
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Mar 13, 2006
We run a few shared hosting servers in the UK, now we used to run mssql 2000 and moved to 2005 in december 2005.
Microsoft SQL 2005 9.00.1399.06
Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 9.00.1399.00
Microsoft Analysis Services Client Tools 2005.090.1399.00
Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2000.086.1830.00 (srv03_sp1_rtm.050324-1447)
Microsoft MSXML 2.6 3.0 6.0
Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0.3790.1830
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.50727.42
Operating System 5.2.3790
We were in the process of improving security on some of our new servers, in the windows password policies settings we enabled the following
minimum password length = 6 characters
Password must meet complexity requirments = enabled
sql 2005 authentification was set in mixed mode, but we have tried windows authentification only as well.
Now when you try and add a new user even if the password meets all requirments you get an error password is to short etc, we used sql managment studio both manually creating a user and scripting with sql, both with the same result.
In the shared hosting environment we need passwords to be secure, the only way we can get sql users to be created is to disable windows password policies which causes security problems.
We would prefer to use sql authentification not windows but even when we use sql authent it still seems to use the windows password policy and the same error occurs
has anyone else found this problem?
could do with a fix asap!
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Apr 17, 2007
12 months since last use!
Is there any way to open server without re-installing to reset password.
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Nov 11, 2007
after upgrading from sql 2000 to 2005 - many users have issues loging on due to case sensitivity
is this something I can turn off ?
sql 2005 passwords are case sensitive - sql 2000 are not (for SQL Accounts)
any suggestions would help greatly
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Oct 4, 2006
What are the exact requirements implied by the sql 2005 option:
"Password Must Meet Complexity Requirements "
TIA,
Barkingdog
P.S. I found this one:
-Cannot contain all or part of the username
-Must be at least 6 characters long
-Contain 3 of the 4 following character groups
- A to Z
- a to z
- 0 to 9
- Special Characters i.e. ! ^ $ *
and I have also found
"At least 7 characters in length"
Combines letters. numbners, and symbolds
Is not a dicitonary word, name of a command, person's name or user's account name
As the saying goes "close, but no cigar!"
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Oct 1, 2007
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
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Feb 6, 2006
I've legacy code that requires a blank password for a SQL Server login.
This works fine on 2000 or 7.
How can you allow blank passwords on SQL Server 2005 without changing the windows policy?
Is there a stored procedure to do this?
I know you can now use CREATE LOGIN and set CHECK_POLICY to no on SQL 2005 when creating logins, but this needs to run on SQL Server 7/2000 and so its using sp_addlogin.
(NB: I can't easily change the legacy code to work conditionally on SQL Server 2005)
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Feb 6, 2007
I have question regarding updating user password in sql 2005.
Is there a way to update user password in tsql without specify the old password?
In sql 2000, since we are still able to mess with the data in system table, I can use update statement to update the password field in the login table with encrypted data. But since sql 2005 does not allow users to mess with system tables, I am wondering if there are any ways to update user password without specifying the old password when I use "sa" user to login.
Thank you.
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Mar 8, 2007
Hi All
I am running SQL Server 2005 SP2 on Windows Server 2003 R2 machines.
I am running the SQL Server service under a domain account. This account has the common sense options ticked/unticked.. i.e. password never expires, don't force user to change password at first login.
I find the SQL Server will start fine under this account.. and run continuously without a problem. Then when the machine is reboot, the SQL Server service has not started. So I go to the "Services" app in the administrative tools and click Start. I immediately get the message that "The service could not start due to a logon failure".
The username still appears to be there, and the password appears to be there too but I obviously cannot tell what it is as its masked. The password has not been changed. But for some reason the authentication details are not correct - so when I re-enter them and click Apply it says "account has been granted Log On As A Service right" and I can click Start and SQL server will start up.
Next reboot... and it happens again. Any ideas why this would be? This occurred when we were running SQL Server 2005 with no SP, and with SP1 too. It happens on all our machines, both x86 and x64.
Adam
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