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HOW TO CHECK IF A USER ACCOUNT IS LOCKED? IF LOCKED HOW TO UNLOCK IT?


There are times a DBA gets a request to see the user account got locked or the user is unable to login.

Here is the simple script to see if a login account is locked or not.

Use Master
Go
select loginproperty('UserName','Islocked')
GO


If  the script above returns

1- Account got Locked

0- Not Locked

If Retuns 1 and need to Unlock the account Run the below script.

ALTER LOGIN [UserName] WITHPASSWORD='****'UNLOCK;
GO