Re: how do you set up an admin account?



If you log into Windows as an account that has administrative privileges on
the box and then log into SQL Server with Windows security, you are an
administrator in SQL Server and should be able to create logins to your
heart's content.

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"middletree" <middletree@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In a recent installation of 2005, I have been burned by the fact that I
> didn't set up something along the lines of SQL 2000's sa account. But in
> my defense, 2005 didn't ask me to do so. Now it won't let me into the
> account that I did set up, and I am probably going to have to uninstall
> SQL and reinstall.
>
> So when I do reinstall, where can I set up such an account?
>


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