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dgk
My co-worker, no idiot, says that the tooltip in the system tray for
the SS2000 icon usually shows the computer and server, but once in a
while shows the password (two slashes and the password).

Is this a known bug of some sort? It really shouldn't be showing his
password. It's likely the developer edition, but still, that isn't
good.
Jan 3 '07 #1
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I believe the \\xxx is the name of the server. I the person that installed
SQL server put the SA password as the server name, then he is an idiot. If
you hover the mouse over the server with the green triangle, it will show
that the sql server \\xxx is running.
"dgk" <dg*@somewhere. comwrote in message
news:m1******** *************** *********@4ax.c om...
My co-worker, no idiot, says that the tooltip in the system tray for
the SS2000 icon usually shows the computer and server, but once in a
while shows the password (two slashes and the password).

Is this a known bug of some sort? It really shouldn't be showing his
password. It's likely the developer edition, but still, that isn't
good.

Jan 15 '07 #2
dgk
On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 20:53:05 -0500, "Oscar Santiesteban"
<o_************ @bellsouth.netw rote:
>I believe the \\xxx is the name of the server. I the person that installed
SQL server put the SA password as the server name, then he is an idiot. If
you hover the mouse over the server with the green triangle, it will show
that the sql server \\xxx is running.
"dgk" <dg*@somewhere. comwrote in message
news:m1******* *************** **********@4ax. com...
>My co-worker, no idiot, says that the tooltip in the system tray for
the SS2000 icon usually shows the computer and server, but once in a
while shows the password (two slashes and the password).

Is this a known bug of some sort? It really shouldn't be showing his
password. It's likely the developer edition, but still, that isn't
good.
Normally, almost all the time in fact, the tooltip does show the
machine and sql instance name. But he claims that he has seen the
password there on rare occasion. The only way to know if this is
possible is to look at the code. It is entirely possible that some
programmer used a variable that is periodically updating the tooltip,
and used it for something else for a second. It won't be the first
time that something unanticipated happened with a global variable.
Jan 17 '07 #3

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