$server = New-Object Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server("your_server_name") $server.ConnectionContext.IntegratedSecurity = $true $server.ConnectionContext.Connect()
$login = $server.Logins["your_login_name"] $password = $login.Password sql server password decrypt
If your Windows account is an administrator on the machine but not in SQL Server: $server = New-Object Microsoft
If SQL Server is currently running and a user is connected, the password might appear in plain text in memory briefly during the login handshake. Tools like mimikatz can extract these from the sqlservr.exe process memory. This is a forensic technique, not a standard decryption. not a standard decryption.