Comments on: SQL SERVER – Forgot the Password of Username SA http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/08/04/sql-server-forgot-the-password-of-username-sa/ Personal Notes of Pinal Dave Fri, 17 May 2013 15:26:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Sudheer http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/08/04/sql-server-forgot-the-password-of-username-sa/#comment-476361 Thu, 16 May 2013 08:29:07 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6268#comment-476361 awesome blog !!!
Happy to see people like you who tries to share what ever they learnt.

]]> By: affilorama review http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/08/04/sql-server-forgot-the-password-of-username-sa/#comment-416153 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 06:52:35 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6268#comment-416153 It’s awesome in favor of me to have a web site, which is valuable designed for my experience. thanks admin

]]> By: simonsoki48 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/08/04/sql-server-forgot-the-password-of-username-sa/#comment-405111 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:00:06 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6268#comment-405111 this server block my website plz help guy

]]> By: Saravanan http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/08/04/sql-server-forgot-the-password-of-username-sa/#comment-373598 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:50:52 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6268#comment-373598 Pinal you saved my day today . You are awesome

]]> By: rigo http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/08/04/sql-server-forgot-the-password-of-username-sa/#comment-367242 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 23:58:37 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6268#comment-367242 perfect, just what i was looking for

]]> By: Amine http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/08/04/sql-server-forgot-the-password-of-username-sa/#comment-342210 Sun, 09 Sep 2012 12:06:33 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6268#comment-342210 passkey -m query -u sa

]]> By: Nisha http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/08/04/sql-server-forgot-the-password-of-username-sa/#comment-339881 Sat, 01 Sep 2012 09:05:42 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6268#comment-339881 Thanks :)

]]> By: Will http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/08/04/sql-server-forgot-the-password-of-username-sa/#comment-338945 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 21:26:28 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6268#comment-338945 I am a newbie at SQL server administration and this is great! Thanks!

]]> By: parthiban http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/08/04/sql-server-forgot-the-password-of-username-sa/#comment-331359 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 10:46:17 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6268#comment-331359 sqlsever login is locked out..
how to unlock

]]> By: Alex Martinez http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/08/04/sql-server-forgot-the-password-of-username-sa/#comment-315461 Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:28:32 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6268#comment-315461 Couple of notes for my situation to get it working for SQL Server 2008R2
I used option #2 detailed above, and followed the link to setting up in single user mode, and had a slight modification to the startup parameter

-m;-dC:\Program Files….. (basically adding the – in front of dC, as opposed to screenshot)

Also, I had to stop all the other SQL server services (Sql agent, reporting, etc…) as they would give me an error if they were still running when I tried to connect via sqlcmd.

Another thing was that when clicking on the command prompt, I right clicked it and selected run as Administrator and ran the following command: (Replacing Domain\Alex_Martinez with your desired user name of course)

EXEC sp_addsrvrolemember ‘Domain\Alex_Martinez’, ‘sysadmin’;
GO
QUIT

At this point I was able to login with the new sysadmin role above and change the SA password via Mangement Studio. Hope this helps another newbie like myself.

]]> By: Dinesh http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/08/04/sql-server-forgot-the-password-of-username-sa/#comment-305707 Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:37:47 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6268#comment-305707 Try this

sp_password @new = ’123′, @loginame = ‘sa’

]]> By: navdeep saxena http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/08/04/sql-server-forgot-the-password-of-username-sa/#comment-289760 Mon, 28 May 2012 05:56:31 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6268#comment-289760 hi pinal,
I face a problem of Login failed again and again in sql server authentication for sql server r2 2008……..

]]> By: kumar http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/08/04/sql-server-forgot-the-password-of-username-sa/#comment-276349 Sun, 15 Apr 2012 14:10:54 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6268#comment-276349 Is there any difference sql management studo R1 and R2

]]> By: kumar http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/08/04/sql-server-forgot-the-password-of-username-sa/#comment-276347 Sun, 15 Apr 2012 14:09:22 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6268#comment-276347 kumar:I dont know the passwod of sql server management studio can any body help me out in finding the password of my management studio for sql server authentication

]]> By: T http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/08/04/sql-server-forgot-the-password-of-username-sa/#comment-276339 Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:30:21 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6268#comment-276339 Thanks. This works fine for a default instance. Mine’s an R2. However, I dont know how to do it for my named instance. there is only the sa user in there, no other user part of the sysadmin group. Do you know what i can do to try this on a named instance?

]]> By: sathwick http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/08/04/sql-server-forgot-the-password-of-username-sa/#comment-261107 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 13:58:29 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6268#comment-261107 Thanks

]]> By: Andy http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/08/04/sql-server-forgot-the-password-of-username-sa/#comment-247101 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:28:49 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6268#comment-247101 Hi all.

How I can change the sa password without logon to the SQL-Server?
I have forgott it and the mixed authentication is not active.
So i had tried to use the single user mode but without a goal!

Is it possible to change the sa password in the master database?

I search for a while on the internet but a don’t found a answer!

Please help me to reset my sa password.

Thand you

]]> By: arun http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/08/04/sql-server-forgot-the-password-of-username-sa/#comment-182415 Sun, 23 Oct 2011 17:28:16 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6268#comment-182415 thanks…

]]> By: rufix http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/08/04/sql-server-forgot-the-password-of-username-sa/#comment-125245 Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:35:53 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6268#comment-125245 thnx this article saved me

]]> By: warm http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/08/04/sql-server-forgot-the-password-of-username-sa/#comment-116289 Sun, 06 Feb 2011 04:20:49 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6268#comment-116289 I cannot make a new data base . It is giving me a error 262
plz hlp

]]> By: Ajay http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/08/04/sql-server-forgot-the-password-of-username-sa/#comment-115631 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 07:15:30 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6268#comment-115631 Very Helpful Post…

]]> By: jack http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/08/04/sql-server-forgot-the-password-of-username-sa/#comment-102701 Sun, 28 Nov 2010 23:58:08 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6268#comment-102701 This method doesn’t work with SQL Server 2008 R2. Anyone has got any idea which method can work with SQL server 2008 R2. It works file with SQL 2005.

]]> By: Jayesh Prajapati http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/08/04/sql-server-forgot-the-password-of-username-sa/#comment-89711 Mon, 27 Sep 2010 09:43:09 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6268#comment-89711 hi pinal,

i like your toipcs.
it’s informative.

Regards,
Jayesh Prajapati

]]> By: Akira Suzuki http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/08/04/sql-server-forgot-the-password-of-username-sa/#comment-75465 Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:07:38 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6268#comment-75465 Thanks a log!! You saved my day!!

]]> By: Bruce http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2009/08/04/sql-server-forgot-the-password-of-username-sa/#comment-74531 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 04:14:52 +0000 http://blog.sqlauthority.com/?p=6268#comment-74531 You are a genius. I was about to go town with a baseball bat on my PC until I saw this blog entry. Thanks a lot for the info!

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