In a previous life, all of our code was scanned for "vulnerabilities". One of the issues they looked for was if passwords were being stored in local variables.

In a previous life, all of our code was scanned for "vulnerabilities". One of the issues they looked for was if passwords were being stored in local variables. Initially, LOTS of people would do something like: $Username=<username> $Password=<password> Connection.string=($Username, $Password) The parser would flag this - Password was being stored to a variable! So we just changed our code: $pw=<Password>. Problem solved!