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sa Account still bad?

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CoffeeAddict
Yak Posting Veteran

94 Posts

Posted - 2009-04-16 : 16:40:50

is the sa account still considered bad practice for use for anything inside SQL 2008? I haven't touched it in 8 years and we always use auth for everything.

tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2009-04-16 : 18:05:00

What do you mean by you always use "auth"?

The sa account shouldn't be used by anyone except DBAs and the DBAs might as well just use their Windows accounts that have sysadmin. The sa account definitely shouldn't be used by any applications.

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saurabhsrivastava
Posting Yak Master

216 Posts

Posted - 2009-04-16 : 23:04:45

I think he is talking about Windows authetication

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