Re: Internet password attacks

From: Russell Stevens (rustyprogrammer_at_online.nospam)
Date: 08/29/05 

Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 08:22:51 -0400

Hal,

<<Allow the SA account to be renamed in a service pack? You are mad>>

No - the SP doesn't rename it, it gives the SQL admin the ability to change
it. If he has apps that use it, then he can fix them first or leave as is.

<<Unfortunately, it is likely to be a long
time until the next SQL Server 2000 Service Pack and that will (I'm
guessing) be little more than a hotfix rollup. So we've probably missed the
boat on doing anything for SQL Server 2000.>>

We have been missing the boat for many years - Microsoft just refuses to fix
it (this is not a new issue <g>).

Thanks
Russ Stevens

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