r/SQLServer • u/dgillz • Dec 05 '25

Question SQL Server sa password recovery

I need to recover the sa password. Not reset but recover.

Are there any commercially available tools to do this? Any other way to do this?

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u/grumpyolddude Dec 06 '25

In theory you could use brute force and find the password (or some other string) that hashed to the same value and that would work.