RE: [OT] MYOB and SQL Server security

2010-08-14 Thread Ken Schaefer
Hi, MYOB must have some way of connecting to SQL Server. So you could always connect as that user account... Alternatively, do as Greg Low suggests and try moving the DB to another machine. Assuming they haven't implemented some encryption mechanism, you should have access to the data, and you

Re: [OT] MYOB and SQL Server security

2010-08-14 Thread silky
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Greg Keogh wrote: > >Just stop the service, copy the mdf and ldf files to another place and > > reattach them to another instance where you are admin. > > Hmmm! I’ll give that a bash next week when I’m back on the machine where > it’s installed. > > Someone in the

RE: [OT] MYOB and SQL Server security

2010-08-14 Thread Greg Keogh
>Just stop the service, copy the mdf and ldf files to another place and reattach them to another instance where you are admin. Hmmm! I'll give that a bash next week when I'm back on the machine where it's installed. Someone in the group here several weeks ago pointed out that this "security

RE: [OT] MYOB and SQL Server security

2010-08-14 Thread Greg Low (greglow.com)
Hi Greg, Just stop the service, copy the mdf and ldf files to another place and reattach them to another instance where you are admin. Regards, Greg From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Greg Keogh Sent: Sunday, 15 August 2010 9:42 A

[OT] MYOB and SQL Server security

2010-08-14 Thread Greg Keogh
Howdy on Sunday. Who's working? I was working last week on a machine that had a preview release of MYOB "Huxley" on it. I think this is part of their long overdue second attempt at using .NET. But I also think it's only the backend that uses .NET (anyone know how their .NET development is going