Symptoms
Assume that you use a Maintenance plan that runs on a recurring schedule as a SQL Server Agent job to back up a database in Microsoft SQL Server. If the credentials of the SQL connection for the job are a SQL user name and a password, the job finishes successfully. However, error entries that resemble the following entry are logged in the SQL Server log:
DateTime Logon Error: 18456, Severity: 14, State: 8.
DateTime Logon Login failed for user 'UserName'. Reason: Password did not match that for the login provided. [CLIENT: <LocalMachine>]
Note If the plan is run by Windows authentication, the job finishes successfully without having error entries logged in the SQL Server log.
Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
Resolution
This problem is fixed in the following cumulative updates for SQL Server:
About cumulative updates for SQL Server:
Each new cumulative update for SQL Server contains all the hotfixes and all the security fixes that were included with the previous cumulative update. Check out the latest cumulative updates for SQL Server:
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