Enforcing strong passwords in SQL Server

From: Abhishek (abhi_narulkar@hotmail.com)
Date: 09/24/02 

From: "Abhishek" <abhi_narulkar@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 02:41:24 -0700

Hi,
   I need to enforce strong passwords in SQL Server.The
passwords should be of some minimum length and should
contain some special characters.This should be checked
specially for the sa account.The sa account should be
checked for the blank passwords.
Can anybody help??
Thanks
Abhishek.

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