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20 Jan 2006 11:11 AM
Igor Solodovnikov
Is there default password for sa user in SQL Server 2005 Express Edition?

Author
20 Jan 2006 11:43 AM
Ryan
Hi Igor,

By default SQL Express will be set to Windows Authentication, to use SQL
authentication you need to change authentication to mixed mode and enable
the SA account

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HTH. Ryan
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"Igor Solodovnikov" <IgorSolodovni***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
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> Is there default password for sa user in SQL Server 2005 Express Edition?
Author
20 Jan 2006 11:59 AM
Igor Solodovnikov
I already switched to mixed mode. But how can i enable sa account?

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:43:42 +0200, Ryan <Ryan_Waight@nospam.hotmail.com> 
wrote:

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> Hi Igor,
>
> By default SQL Express will be set to Windows Authentication, to use SQL
> authentication you need to change authentication to mixed mode and enable
> the SA account
>
Author
20 Jan 2006 12:38 PM
Ryan
ALTER LOGIN sa ENABLE

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HTH. Ryan
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"Igor Solodovnikov" <IgorSolodovni***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:op.s3od9vy0n8ihmu@iw2k.helpmicro.local...
>I already switched to mixed mode. But how can i enable sa account?
>
> On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:43:42 +0200, Ryan <Ryan_Waight@nospam.hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Igor,
>>
>> By default SQL Express will be set to Windows Authentication, to use SQL
>> authentication you need to change authentication to mixed mode and enable
>> the SA account
>>
>
Author
20 Jan 2006 1:22 PM
Igor Solodovnikov
Thank you. Now my sa account is enabled. But i dont know its password. Of 
course i can try to set it up with sp_password. But is there any default 
for this? Or this password is random?

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:38:31 +0200, Ryan <Ryan_Waight@nospam.hotmail.com> 
wrote:

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> ALTER LOGIN sa ENABLE
>
Author
20 Jan 2006 1:29 PM
Ryan
Your best bet would be to connect as a sysadmin via a trusted connection and
then issue :-

ALTER LOGIN sa WITH PASSWORD = 'letmeinplease'
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HTH. Ryan
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"Igor Solodovnikov" <IgorSolodovni***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:op.s3oh4kiyn8ihmu@iw2k.helpmicro.local...
> Thank you. Now my sa account is enabled. But i dont know its password. Of
> course i can try to set it up with sp_password. But is there any default
> for this? Or this password is random?
>
> On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:38:31 +0200, Ryan <Ryan_Waight@nospam.hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> ALTER LOGIN sa ENABLE
>>
>
Author
20 Jan 2006 2:35 PM
ML
> ALTER LOGIN sa WITH PASSWORD = 'letmeinplease'

This is probably the most intuitive password ever. :)


ML

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Author
20 Jan 2006 3:19 PM
Roger Wolter[MSFT]
Yes, it is random.  If you specify mixed authentication from the start,
setup will ask you to specify a password but if you install with Windows
authentication, a random password is generated.  It sounds like you
understand how to give it the password you want so you should be OK.

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"Igor Solodovnikov" <IgorSolodovni***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:op.s3oh4kiyn8ihmu@iw2k.helpmicro.local...
> Thank you. Now my sa account is enabled. But i dont know its password. Of
> course i can try to set it up with sp_password. But is there any default
> for this? Or this password is random?
>
> On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 14:38:31 +0200, Ryan <Ryan_Waight@nospam.hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> ALTER LOGIN sa ENABLE
>>
>
Author
20 Jan 2006 4:32 PM
Igor Solodovnikov
Thank you.

On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 17:19:12 +0200, Roger Wolter[MSFT] 
<rwol***@online.microsoft.com> wrote:

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> Yes, it is random.  If you specify mixed authentication from the start,
> setup will ask you to specify a password but if you install with Windows
> authentication, a random password is generated.  It sounds like you
> understand how to give it the password you want so you should be OK.
>

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