What to do if you forgot SA password in SQL Server 2005?
In general if you forgot SA password or if the SA account is disabled these are the options to login into SQL Server 2005 and reset or enable SA.
SQL Server 2005 provides a special diagnostic connection for administrators when standard connections to the server are not possible. This diagnostic connection allows an administrator to access SQL Server to execute diagnostic queries and troubleshoot problems even when SQL Server is not responding to standard connection requests.
We need to rebuild the system databases if the master database is corrupted or damaged. Let us discuss in detail how to rebuild system databases in SQL server 2005.
Step 1: Take a full backup of all the System and User databases prior to rebuilding the system databases as we need to restore it later to avoid data loss.
Amit Bhatt
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Hi Deepak,
Thanks for such a nice article.
You missed one thing to add in code:
@article = ‘all’,
Hence the script will be like this:
EXEC sp_addsubscription
@publication = ‘mypublication’,
@article = ‘ALL’,
@subscriber = ‘Subscriberservername’,
@destination_db = ‘mydestinationdbname’,
@reserved=’Internal’
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VidhyaSagar
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Naveen,
I’ll check this out and get back to you.
balakiran
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Thanks man, Very simple & easy to understand !!!!