changing the sa password in SQL 2005

Hello, All
Is there a way to change the sa password in SQL 2005 without knowing the
existing password?
I tried everything I can find online to change the password but nothing
works.
This is on my test server so I am opened to anything.
Thank you.What is the error message you are getting? Are you connecting as a member of
sysadmin? Try connecting using Windows Authentication as a local
Administrator.
Ben Nevarez, MCDBA, OCP
Database Administrator
"steve" wrote:
> Hello, All
> Is there a way to change the sa password in SQL 2005 without knowing the
> existing password?
> I tried everything I can find online to change the password but nothing
> works.
> This is on my test server so I am opened to anything.
> Thank you.
>
>
>|||maybe if you are an administrator of SQL Server, you can change the password
of another account. (using the management console)
so if you use the local windows administrator account, then you can
certainly access the server as an administrtor, then you can change the
password.
but if your security model use only SQL accounts and you don't have another
account with enough privilege, then you can't change the password of another
account.
I hope this will help you
"steve" <steve@.nothing.com> wrote in message
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> Hello, All
> Is there a way to change the sa password in SQL 2005 without knowing the
> existing password?
> I tried everything I can find online to change the password but nothing
> works.
> This is on my test server so I am opened to anything.
> Thank you.
>
>|||Hi Steve,
Does this help?
EXEC sp_password NULL, 'newpass','sa'
Need to be a sysadmin to run this however.
--
David Tan,
Production DBA
Webcentral
www.webcentral.com.au
"steve" wrote:
> Hello, All
> Is there a way to change the sa password in SQL 2005 without knowing the
> existing password?
> I tried everything I can find online to change the password but nothing
> works.
> This is on my test server so I am opened to anything.
> Thank you.
>
>
>