From the course: SQL Server 2008 Essential Training

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,500 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Creating service accounts

Creating service accounts - SQL Server Tutorial

From the course: SQL Server 2008 Essential Training

Start my 1-month free trial

Creating service accounts

Next up is an optional step, but it's one I want to spend a couple of minutes on. You see once SQL Server is installed, it won't just be running as one piece. As I mentioned before, it will really be running in the background as several different components and the recommended best practice is that each of these components has its own unique identity that it runs under an account that was created just for that piece. Now it's certainly arguable that you don't need to go to all this trouble when setting up a simple development SQL Server, that you can just give them all the same account. But I want to show this process. So I'm going to go ahead and set up five accounts. One for the core database engine, one for the part of SQL Server called the SQL Server Agent, and that handles a lot of background jobs and processes to keep everything running, and three for the big junk pieces, Reporting Services, Analysis Services and Integration Services. While there are a couple of other components…

Contents