SQL sa account lockout

Hello!

Following our annual IT Security Audit, all our SQL "SA" accounts were locked out (I'm assuming caused by the vulnerability scans). I have unlocked the sa account (and given a new password) associated with my Spark instance of SQL Express 2008 but I get the following error when I try and start the Openfire server. I'm assuming its because the password has changed. Any suggestions?

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error messages.

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: java.sql.SQLException: ConnectionManager.getConnection() failed to obtain a connection after 11 retries. The exception from the last attempt is as follows: java.sql.SQLException: Login failed for user 'sa'.

  at org.jivesoftware.openfire.XMPPServer.verifyDataSource(XMPPServer.java:734)

  at org.jivesoftware.openfire.XMPPServer.start(XMPPServer.java:448)

  at org.jivesoftware.openfire.XMPPServer.<init>(XMPPServer.java:169)

  at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)

  at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)

  at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source)

  at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source)

  at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Unknown Source)

  at org.jivesoftware.openfire.starter.ServerStarter.start(ServerStarter.java:105)

  at org.jivesoftware.openfire.starter.ServerStarter.main(ServerStarter.java:56)

  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)

  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

  at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)

  at com.exe4j.runtime.LauncherEngine.launch(Unknown Source)

  at com.exe4j.runtime.WinLauncher.main(Unknown Source)

  at com.install4j.runtime.launcher.WinLauncher.main(Unknown Source)

Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: ConnectionManager.getConnection() failed to obtain a connection after 11 retries. The exception from the last attempt is as follows: java.sql.SQLException: Login failed for user 'sa'.

  at org.jivesoftware.database.DbConnectionManager.getConnection(DbConnectionManager .java:156)

  at org.jivesoftware.openfire.XMPPServer.verifyDataSource(XMPPServer.java:724)

  ... 16 more

Server halted