Ensuring that the sa login account is renamed

Note: Changing this setting can impact all the other products on the database server for which you use the sa login account. Ensure that the settings do not impact the other products.

The sa account is an SQL Server account with the sysadmin privileges. When you rename the account, guessing the passwords or the brute-force attacks becomes difficult.

Execute the T-SQL query:

ALTER LOGIN sa WITH NAME =
<different_user>;

Replace <different_user> with the new user name for the sa login.