If you are a local administrator on your machine, this blog post can help you use SQLCMD to get your account into the SQL Server sysadmin group without having to reinstall. It's a bit of a security hole in SQL Server, if you ask me, but it'll help you out in this case.
3.Run SSMS (Sql Server Management Studio) as administrator,and login by windows authentication. 4.Now select security tab and select logins and find 'sa' user and select properties,and reset desired password.
0 Since SQL 2005 the Express edition is installed with windows authentication. In the configuration (management studio, connect to the server and choose database properties) you can activate sql internal authentification then (default deactivated, user sa without password).
I already have a windows user that is an administrator, how do I add that user to SQL? Answers: In SQL Management Studio, create a new login and add it to the sysadmin server role. In SQL Management Studio, create a login connected to the Windows account or a group that it's a member of. You might well find BUILTIN\Administrators is already there.
I have installed SQL Server 2008 using Windows Authentication in my laptop for my own use. I want to add Sysadmin account/role using SQL Server Login type. I checked this post, but it's not showing...
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7 If you are using SQL Server authentication you could try the username sa and blank password but I am not sure whether this is by default. Integrated Windows authentication should work, so you should be able to connect with your Windows account:
I'm writing a windows service that needs to connect to a SQL server to retrieve some information. However, the server doesn't allow me to connect: login failed for user [domain/username].
I have created azure sql server machine in azure portal. While creating the machine I for got to add sql server authintication. So Now When I try to login,Only azure active direcoty authintication is
