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I have administrator privilege. &nbsp;When I try to login into SQLSever 2005 Management Studio, it say the account is lock. &nbsp;Could you give me the steps to unlock the sa account?<br />
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Do I use the SQL Server Surface Area tool? &nbsp;How do I unlock the account using this tool?
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I have administrator privilege.  When I try to login into SQLSever 2005 Management Studio, it say the account is lock.  Could you give me the steps to unlock the sa account?

Do I use the SQL Server Surface Area tool?  How do I unlock the account using this tool?

How can I unlock the sa account on SQL SERVER 2005?

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is a suite of relational database management system (RDBMS) products providing multi-user database access functionality.Component services include integration (SSIS), reporting (SSRS), analysis (SSAS), data quality, master data, T-SQL and performance tuning. It includes support for managing XML data and allows a database server to be exposed over web services using Tabular Data Stream (TDS) packets encapsulated within SOAP (protocol) requests.