Is there a way I can retrieve sa password in sql server 2005

Question

I just forgot the password  Can anyone help me how to get back the password

User · Answer

MSSQL have its own database management tool called as "MSSQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)". Here are steps to reset SA password using SSMS :

1] Open SSMS management console, it will prompt for authentication details,

Select Server Type : "Database Engine", Server name : IP / hostname of your MSSQL server Authentication : Windows Authentication

Once you select Authentication type as "Windows Authentication", the user name and password fields will be grayed out and it will allow you to login SQL server without entering login details. Windows Authentication is possible only when you are logged on same server in RDP on which SQL service is present.

2] once you are in, under "Object Explorer" expand Security and then Logins 3] locate and right click on user SA and select Properties 4] under General section enter desired password in front of "Password:" and "Confirm Password:" 5] hit OK at bottom.

This is the easiest and secure way to reset SA password instead of using any third party non secure tools

User · Answer

There is no way to get the old password back  Log into the SQL server management console as a machine or domain admin using integrated authentication  you can then change any password  including sa    Start the SQL service again and use the new created login  recovery in my example  Go via the security panel to the properties and change the password of the SA account     Now write down the new SA password

User · Answer

Wait   There is a way to retrieve the password by using Brute-Force attack  have a look at the following tool from codeproject Retrieve SQL Server Password    How to use the tool to retrieve the password  To Retrieve the password of SQL Server user run the following query in SQL Query Analyzer   Select Password from SysxLogins Where Name    XXXX   Where XXXX is the user  name for which you want to retrieve password Copy the password field  Hashed Code  and  paste here  in Hashed code Field  and click on start button to retrieve  I checked the tool on SQLServer 2000 and it s working fine

User · Answer

Wait   There is a way to retrieve the password by using Brute-Force attack  have a look at the following tool from codeproject Retrieve SQL Server Password    How to use the tool to retrieve the password  To Retrieve the password of SQL Server user run the following query in SQL Query Analyzer   Select Password from SysxLogins Where Name    XXXX   Where XXXX is the user  name for which you want to retrieve password Copy the password field  Hashed Code  and  paste here  in Hashed code Field  and click on start button to retrieve  I checked the tool on SQLServer 2000 and it s working fine

User · Answer

Granted you have administrative Windows privileges on the server  another option would be to start SQL Server in Single User Mode  using the Startup parameter  -m   Doing this  you can login using SQLCMD  create a new user and give it sysadmin privileges  Finally  you have to disable Single User Mode  login to SSMS using your new user  and go to Segurity Logins and change  sa  user password   You can check this post  http   v-consult be 2011 05 26 recover-sa-password-microsoft-sql-server-2008-r2

User · Answer

MSSQL have its own database management tool called as "MSSQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)". Here are steps to reset SA password using SSMS :

1] Open SSMS management console, it will prompt for authentication details,

Select Server Type : "Database Engine", Server name : IP / hostname of your MSSQL server Authentication : Windows Authentication

Once you select Authentication type as "Windows Authentication", the user name and password fields will be grayed out and it will allow you to login SQL server without entering login details. Windows Authentication is possible only when you are logged on same server in RDP on which SQL service is present.

2] once you are in, under "Object Explorer" expand Security and then Logins 3] locate and right click on user SA and select Properties 4] under General section enter desired password in front of "Password:" and "Confirm Password:" 5] hit OK at bottom.

This is the easiest and secure way to reset SA password instead of using any third party non secure tools

User · Answer

There is no way to get the old password back  Log into the SQL server management console as a machine or domain admin using integrated authentication  you can then change any password  including sa    Start the SQL service again and use the new created login  recovery in my example  Go via the security panel to the properties and change the password of the SA account     Now write down the new SA password

User · Answer

There is no way to get the old password back  Log into the SQL server management console as a machine or domain admin using integrated authentication  you can then change any password  including sa    Start the SQL service again and use the new created login  recovery in my example  Go via the security panel to the properties and change the password of the SA account     Now write down the new SA password

User · Answer

Granted you have administrative Windows privileges on the server  another option would be to start SQL Server in Single User Mode  using the Startup parameter  -m   Doing this  you can login using SQLCMD  create a new user and give it sysadmin privileges  Finally  you have to disable Single User Mode  login to SSMS using your new user  and go to Segurity Logins and change  sa  user password   You can check this post  http   v-consult be 2011 05 26 recover-sa-password-microsoft-sql-server-2008-r2

User · Answer

There is no way to get the old password back  Log into the SQL server management console as a machine or domain admin using integrated authentication  you can then change any password  including sa    Start the SQL service again and use the new created login  recovery in my example  Go via the security panel to the properties and change the password of the SA account     Now write down the new SA password

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