Several months ago, I discussed my customer’s intention to enable trace flag 3625. Since that time, we have observed an intriguing phenomenon when encountering a login failure. To demonstrate this, our initial step is to ensure we are capturing failed login attempts. In Server Properties, select the Security tab, click on Failed Logins Only, and then click OK. Next, we need to test the login failure. We can also verify the failure in the SQL Server error log. Now we need to enable Trace Flag 3625. Refer to my previous article for detailed instructions. We know that failed logins will...