Hi Folks,
I got an urgent request of one of my friends asking for a solution to recover SQL 2005 DB passwords,the situation was as follows:
He took a backup of SQL 2005 DB and set the password option on SQL 2005,and when he tried to restore the DB,SQL 2005 request the password which he forgot it.
My First question was: did he protect the bak file from SQL 2005 or not ? after i got that he protect the DB from SQL 2005,i started to search for third party solution to fix this problem since this DB contains very sensitive information.
I found a third party to recover the SQL 2005 user accounts passwords ,try it now :
http://www.safe-install.com/programs/sql-password.html
The security hole which i discovered that this program can't recover the SQL server passwords if the SQL Engine was configured to use only Windows Authentication Mode; and this is considered as an important security point when we use MS Products with Windows Authentication mode ONLY.
From this post,you have to take care of your SQL installation which mode is an appropriate to your organization.
Hope this helps.
In case you put the password on the bak file,then no way to do any kind of restore to this DB;see more on this article : http://mssqltips.com/tip.asp?tip=1108
Regards,
Moustafa arafa
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