Follow your service accounts naming convention if you've got one.<BR><BR>Go to the Services MMC, stop SQL services, Properties > Log On tab, change the login to the account you've created.

Windows accounts don’t pass passwords between boxes; they only pass their token, so there’s nothing to steal. My devs get tired of me turning down their requests for SQL accounts.

We have our SQL server configured to only allow Windows accounts (i.e. not mixed). However, in some cases we are connecting from non-domain boxes and we want to specify a domain account to connect ...

The worm, called SQLSnake, scans for and attacks Internet-connected SQL Server accounts that aren’t protected by administrative passwords. Once it infects the server, it exports all user ...