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How to recover SA password on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 When you are using MS SQL Server in mixed mode, it is very important that you know your SA password. There can be different reasons you lost the password
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Edit the properties of the SQL Service
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Change the startup parameters of the SQL service by adding a –m; in front of the existing parameters
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Start the SQL services. These are now running in Single User Mode. Start CMD on tthe SQL server Start the SQLCMD command. Now you will see following screen
Now we create a new user. Enter following commands CREATE LOGIN recovery WITH PASSWORD = ‘TopSecret 1′ (Remember SQL server has default strong password policy Go Now this user is created Now we grant the user a SYSADMIN roles using the same SQLCMD window. sp_addsrvrolemember ‘recovery’, ‘sysadmin’ go Stop the SQL service again Change the SQL service properties back to the default settings
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How to recover SA password on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 | Gert Van Gorp 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. Share and Enjoy:
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very Well It works!thank you for sharing your information in such a good way!!!
bahare Sep 19 2011
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This was EXACTLY what I needed. Thanks much!
Craig Martin Feb 10 2012
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Thank you thank you thank you
Stephen Miller Mar 1 2012
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I also find other 3 methods to reset forgotten SA password, learn more details at: http://www.toppassword.com/knowledge/changesqlserverpassword.html Sancho Mar 4 2012
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Nice job !!! Thank you !!! *****
Victor Mar 10 2012
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Super! You made my day!
Fredrik Mar 15 2012
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great how to, Thanks a lot
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Adnan Hassan Mar 28 2012
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Thanks a lot .. it worked for me .. saved my lot of time for reinstallation
Gaurav Mar 29 2012
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Very very useful,, this resolves my issue,,, I was very much happy,,,,,,, Harish Mar 30 2012
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This works (as you knew it would) Thank you.
JRH Apr 5 2012
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Thank you the above article is very helpfull
Ismat Ayash Apr 11 2012
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This article saved a lot of time for me. Thank you
raju Apr 13 2012
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Thanks for the step by step details, this helped a lot with the default instance. Would you know how to make it do it for a named instance? I have searched and searched T
by no one seems to be plagued by a named instance. So maybe I’m missing
Apr 14 2012
something really obvious? reply
Hey, I was having the same problem but finally found a solution, now Diego R. Apr 25 2012
I just can’t login, i’ve been able to create the user but somehow I keep getting a Login failed for user ‘recovery’ (Even when copying user and password straight from the console statement) sqlcmdS .\ or sqlcmd S \ e.g. sqlcmdS HOMEPC\SQLSERVER2 More about it at http://msdn.microsoft.com/enus/library/ms188247.aspx reply
It’s not Working properly……It’s getting Occur Sqlcmd: Error:Sqlserver Native Client 10.0 login Timeout Expaired… Anji varikuti Apr 21 2012
How to solve it…
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Hi, Can you send me the steps you followed and where it went gertvangorp Apr 24 2012
wrong?? Thanks Gert reply
Had to use: SQLCMD E S ‘server_name\db_name’ Dez Nov 14 2012
to solve “Sqlcmd: Error:Sqlserver Native Client 10.0 login Timeout Expired” error. Worked terrific after that, thank you! reply
Thank you – just what I was looking for and very easy to follow.
Kaz Apr 23 2012
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Wanted to say BIG THANK YOU!!! for super easy instruction that work well. Unlike other site they lure people using techniques that not going to work and giving us Dennis
option to purchased software ect.
May 15 2012
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thanks a lot for the info. it save lots my time as I was planning to do reinstall itself
Sanjay May 26 2012
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These instructions are the best. Thank you.
Paul Jun 11 2012
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yesss .i can solve my issue. Thanks very very much
Heby Joseph Jun 14 2012
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Bless your cotton socks! THANK YOU!!!! tristan Jun 22 2012
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Merci, merci, merci, merci, merci, merci !
Vali Jun 27 2012
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Beautiful work,definitely we can try for this tool to recovery the password.Many thanks
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Jonathan Robort Jul 30 2012
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Thank you so much! After searching and searching online, this was exactly what I was looking for. I guess most people don’t understand what it means to lose the SQL MonsterCable Aug 8 2012
SA password. Thanks again! reply
Great – Thanks!
Jeep Aug 28 2012
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Thank you very much.
modtanoy Sep 5 2012
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Nice job !!! Thank you !!!
Saleh Khadempour Sep 11 2012
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This works for me . Thanks
Ashok Tewatia Sep 19 2012
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Thank you! Had to use: Cornel
sqlcmd S
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othewise it would not connect to any instance. Also if you cut and paste from this web page, retype the single quotes to avoid syntax errors. reply
You are great!!!! Very Well It works!thank you for sharing your information in such a good way!!! Pedro Sep 29 2012
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Thank you so much !!!! All the best to you in your life man !! Fabien Oct 4 2012
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This is great, well written step by step instruction. THANK YOU. One more unrelated question, how did you make the screen shot looks like a broken paper edge? Thank XiaoYu
you again.
Oct 5 2012
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Roberto Oct 12 2012
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Respect! Thanks a lot!
Lothar Geisinger Oct 22 2012
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Perfect! You made my day! Thanks!
Sam Oct 26 2012
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Worked perfectly and saved the day! Thank you!
Hacked Oct 29 2012
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Thanks for the awesome solution! Just a few tips: Derek Nov 2 2012
Since you’re in singleuser mode, you may receive the following error: “Login failed for user ‘[user]’. Reason: Server is in single user mode. Only one administrator can connect at this time. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 18461). To resolve this, make sure you stop SSAS and SSRS and SQL Server Agent for the instance that you’re working with. You can then get in. Also, if you have direct access to the server, you’ll be able to login to SQL Management Studio (if installed) and then do your management through the GUI. For my case, I needed to get my network account to authenticate on my local PC, which was being denied because someone else installed SQL on my machine. I was part of the Administrators group, so it let me take it over. Happy coding! reply
Thanks a million times Derek. This one worked so well for me as I had the same problem. Teezee Aug 27 2013
Cheers reply
Problem solved, thank You very much!
AldoArmisi Nov 6 2012
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Worked amazingly. Cheers!
Matt Nov 7 2012
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You need to run command prompt with administrative rights.
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Rafik Berzi Nov 14 2012
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@Rafik Berzi Thank you so much, I was getting authentication failures even Jimmy
though I was logged in with admin credentials. This got me in.
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Thanks a lot brow. It’s worked..Great Tutorial
Sunan Nov 15 2012
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Nice post mate, helped me out just now (inherited a developer machine with no idea what the local password was!) Tahir Nov 26 2012
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It works. a few advise Jerry Nov 28 2012
1. this password recovery is for single login mode, not mixed mode(as mentioned at very begining). if you SQL setup in mixed mode, you can reset your sa password using OS admin account. 2.Derek’s tip very useful. I had same situation. reply
Brillant, that was a life saver !
tskeggs Dec 14 2012
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It’s working fine.Thanks..
Rajesh Dec 15 2012
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After adding m; the “SQLCMD” command worked for me when I started only the “SQL Server (MSSQLSERVER)” service. SQLn00b Dec 17 2012
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Hi, It was so complete and useful for me. Ali Jan 9 2013
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Superb!!!!!!!! Thanks from my heart…………..
Suday Kumar Ghosh Jan 20 2013
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This solution also works for SQL Server 2012. Thanks a lot!
Saskia Jan 21 2013
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Thank you man. Its great.
Kumaresan Feb 11 2013
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Looks like this does not work for 2012
bummer – or I am missing something?
Shane Feb 27 2013
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not sure, not yet tested on SQL 2012 Gert gertvangorp Aug 16 2013
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Amin Reza Mar 17 2013
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Awesome. Cheers!
Jortx Mar 21 2013
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thanks a lot!!!!!!!!!!
kannan.g Mar 26 2013
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Thank you, very effective with easy to follw instructions!
Stevek Apr 3 2013
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Nearly 2 years later and it’s still helping people! Thanks.
Andy Apr 24 2013
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Thank you very Much
Rakesh Kumar Singh May 22 2013
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In the line sp_addsrvrolemember ‘recovery’, ‘sysadmin’ I had to write sp_addsrvrolemember “recovery”, “sysadmin” pele May 29 2013
even so it works very well reply
sp_addsrvrolemember ‘recovery’, ‘sysadmin’ also threw an error, but the following worked for me: William Clement Dec 17 2013
sp_addsrvrolemember recovery, sysadmin Thanks again to the writer! reply
Thanks!
Ali Azsari Jun 19 2013
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Great, it’s really helpful thanks
paresh Jun 27 2013
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Saved my ass…
Kake Jul 8 2013
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Wow! This could not have been written any better! Thanks so much!
Sheila Jul 17 2013
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Thanks a million, this fixed things right up.
fondspararna Jul 26 2013
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You’re my hero ! Thank you so much ! Christiane
And it is very very clear. Very good job.
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It Workzz !! Cheers
Perry Aug 8 2013
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Worked great Thank you !
Florin Chirilas Aug 14 2013
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This saved me a lot of trouble!!! Thanks for sharing. Graham Aug 20 2013
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Excellent, thank you
Juan Aug 20 2013
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thanx a lot.
Teezee Aug 27 2013
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it’s work , Thank so much
Remez Aug 29 2013
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Thanks, You’re my hero ! masi Aug 31 2013
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With SQL Server 2008 R2 Express I had to use: sqlcmd S [servername]\[instance] MB Sep 19 2013
This was even for the default instance sqlexpress. reply
Good job
Mirek Sep 26 2013
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kemal kayalı Sep 28 2013
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Great Job. Thank you!
Ronaldo Bicca Oct 4 2013
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Thanks a lot, you save me
Rajaonary Oct 9 2013
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Thanks a lot!!!!!
shahp Oct 15 2013
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This didn’t work for me. It tells me “Alter failed for Login ‘sa’ glenn wong Oct 17 2013
An exception occurred while executing a TransactSQL statement or batch. Cannot set a credential for principal ‘sa’ (Microsoft SQL Server, Error:15535) reply
found a solution, had to do the following: select the “Map To Credential” check box on the General tab of glenn wong Oct 17 2013
the Login Properties – sa dialog box. that got rid of my error reply
Thanks a lot, very clearly explained
Devi Oct 23 2013
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thank you! still helps in 2013 fipsinator Oct 30 2013
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Worked but only after doing something else, not mentioned in the article above… Starting SQLCMD without any other parameters only starts it in the default instance of Ross Oct 31 2013
SQL, if you are trying to create an SA account in a named instance (e.g. sqlServer\sql2008), you need to connect SQLCMD to that named instance. Mine for example, is \SQL2008 so to connect SQLCMD to that, I had to open the cmd prompt and write: SQLCMD S .\SQL2008 reply
Thanks! Very, very helpful!
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Peter Nov 1 2013
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The instructions are very clear and straight forward. Thanks!
Khalid Nov 21 2013
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Excellent article. Really got me out of a bind. thank you.
Andrew Dec 11 2013
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thanks, it works like a charm
Rudy Dec 19 2013
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this process is very complicated i have another solution to recover the SQL Server Password which is highly reliable and robust the SQL Password recovery software. Enrique
You can use its demo version which ensured you how it perform riskfree password
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recovery process. http://www.sqlmdfviewer.org/sqlpasswordrecoveryfreeware.html reply
I do not want to change the SQL SA password as many applications explicitly depend on this password such as Sun finance system , Ifor etc. Daljit Bhana Jun 17 2014
Is there a tool that can show the the password ! Dal reply
There no tool that can do this
gertvangorp Sep 5 2014
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Superb! Very simple and straightforward to follow.
sid Aug 1 2014
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