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 Dropping a database with brute force

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Posted - 2005-08-16 : 08:02:05
Jonathan writes "For days, I've been trying to drop a SQL Server 2000 DB. But SQL Server returns a message to the effect that it's in use so I'm not permitted to. OK, in Enterprise manager I expand the Management\Current Activity\Process Info nodes to see what's 'using' the DB.
There I find 2 process IDs owned by sa in a sleeping state but connected to the db that I want to delete. I highlight each one, right-click and select Kill Process. Nada. They're still there! And I'm sa!

Is there a way to Drop a database with brute force?"

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Posted - 2005-08-16 : 08:03:02
This might help:

http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=40077
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