June 2007 - Posts
This post focus on a typical cause of sql login failure issue described as the title. In real world, a customer log on to the machine as a domain\user or local machine accout, he can connec to SQL Server through SQL Server Management Studio. However,
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When enabling channel encryption between the application and SQL Server, users may wonder what encryption algorithm is being used to protect their data. Unfortunately, this isn't an easy question to answer and here's why. SQL Server (both 2005 and 2000)
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In the blog Certificate for SQL Server 2005 , I explained the requirements of a certificate for SQL Server 2005. Customer usually needs to purchase a certificate from certificate authorities (such as VeriSign), or apply a test certificate from some of
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Some customers have experienced problems connecting to SQL Server 2005 on Vista and Longhorn. Even though they are trying to connect using an account that is an administrator on the box, they get a "Login failed for user" error message with a state of
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