• Sqlism (8/7/2012)

    Question 1) these accounts shoulb be AD accounts,am i right?

    Question 2) Creating Service accounts is job of DBA? I think it should be done by systems/network team(plz clarify)

    Question 3) These same 5 accounts will be used in dev and future prod box, condition is that service accounts password should be different in DEV and QA, how can i fulfill this?

    #1 - It depends on how things are set up at your company, but I would recommend AD accounts, configured as ones that cannot be locked out. Another note, these accounts should not be granted logon to the server/workstation.

    #2 - The DBA/team can request the creation of AD accounts, but in my experience it's the System/Network team. However if the system/network team is going to allow you to do it and grant you access to do so, I'd be tickled...

    #3 - ??? How can you fulfill it? Can't you just ask them to make the account passwords different ???

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