• If the password of a SQL service account is THAT important to your companies defense of it's data then you are already inside a hurt locker if you ask me but I do know we'd have to change our SOX/SAS/PCI/GSA account documentation to even think about doing this and it would result in god only knows how many issues since we have automated the security model around a 90 day change of service accounts, instance spawning automation and self serivice account management for our clients... I guess for a small shop with under 100 servers this might be a no brainer, but with VM the days of counting servers on two hands are gone...