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Thursday, August 13, 2009

SQL Server: Finding and Killing Database Connections

This is a query I use often to check what active connections exist for a specified database:
select  spid, sp.cmd, sp.hostname, sp.loginame, sp.nt_domain, sp.nt_username, sp.program_name
from    master.dbo.sysprocesses sp
where   db_name(dbid) = 'mydatabase'
and DBID <> 0  
and spid <> @@spid 

If I want to take the database offline I'll then kill these processes using the spid.

I also found a great post today that had a nice way of killing ALL active connections, by running the following sql:

alter database dbName set single_user with rollback immediate  

This can then be reverted out with

alter database dbName set multi_user with rollback immediate 

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