There is a way to retrieve the password by using Brute-Force attack, have a look at the following tool from codeproject How to use the tool to retrieve the password To Retrieve the password of SQL Server user,run the following query in SQL Query Analyzer 'Select Password from SysxLogins Where Name = 'XXXX' Where XXXX is the user name for which you want to retrieve password.Copy the password field (Hashed Code) and paste here (in Hashed code Field) and click on start button to retrieve I checked the tool on SQLServer 2000 and it's working fine.
