Login failed for user ‘sa’ because the account is currently locked out.

Hi,

I have read many of the postings, however my current windows account does not have SA privileges. So every time I try to run

ALTER LOGIN sa WITH PASSWORD = ’yourpass’ UNLOCK ;

GO

Of course you can also disable your policy

ALTER LOGIN sa WITH CHECK_POLICY = OFF;
ALTER LOGIN sa WITH CHECK_POLICY = ON;

I get access is denied. My windows account is a member of the local admin group but it does not have sysadmin privileges.

I am wondering if I login as the local administrator will that give me the privileges I need?

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Windows 2008R2 / SQL 2008 R2 Std

Regards,

Frank Garcia

Frank Garcia