Dropping a database

SQLServerCentral is supported by Red Gate Software Ltd.

Popular Topics

Home

Members

Calendar

Who's On

Home » Article Discussions » Article Discussions by Author » Discuss Content Posted by Rahul Sharma » Dropping a database

Dropping a database

Rate Topic

Display Mode

Topic Options

Author

Message

rsharma

Posted Thursday, July 05, 2001 12:00 AM

SSC Veteran

Group: General Forum Members
Last Login: Friday, May 11, 2012 3:58 AM
Points: 265, Visits: 184

Comments posted to this topic are about the content posted at http://www.sqlservercentral.com/columnists/rsharma/droppingadatabase.asp

Post #514

pattikay

Posted Monday, August 13, 2001 1:32 AM

Grasshopper

Group: General Forum Members
Last Login: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 6:34 AM
Points: 11, Visits: 2

Hi Rahul,
I will find the script very useful,tho i have one question,
what are u executing when u said :
EXEC SetMessages

Thanks.

Post #19797

rsharma

Posted Monday, August 13, 2001 11:03 AM

SSC Veteran

Group: General Forum Members
Last Login: Friday, May 11, 2012 3:58 AM
Points: 265, Visits: 184

Patti:

The script has an error....I was using SetMessages as my stored proc for having my custom error messages. You can remove that piece of code from the first proc usp_DropDB and you will be fine or alternatively you can make a change to the usp_ForceDropDb stored procedure and replace the statement in the end:
"EXEC usp_DropDB @DatabaseName"
with
SET @DatabaseName = QUOTENAME(@DatabaseName)
EXEC ('DROP DATABASE ' + @DatabaseName )

Hth,

Rahul

Rahul Sharma
Senior Database Administrator
Manhattan Associates
Atlanta, GA

Post #19798

jonkusnir

Posted Friday, April 12, 2002 6:49 PM

Forum Newbie

Group: General Forum Members
Last Login: Monday, July 02, 2007 10:42 PM
Points: 1, Visits: 1

Hi, thanks for this one!

Mnd goal is to publish a content database from staging to live, safely, from an admin web page. The wrinkle is that the DB must remain alive on the web during the process ... I plan to modify the DSNs on the fly.

One small point, when I use this in SQL 7 it returns an error "You can't kill your own process."

This error was causing the calling DTS package to fail on this step.

I simply added a clause to the SELECT of spids to exclude "@@SPID" which is the current process.

SELECT spid
FROM master.dbo.sysprocesses
WHERE dbid =
(SELECT dbid FROM master.dbo.sysdatabases
WHERE name = @DatabaseName)
AND spid <> @@SPID
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

It worked fine and once again I appreciate the resource, I don't know much T-SQL ... I'm actually a web guy using Cold Fusion with SQL Server.

- Jon

Post #19799

« Prev Topic | Next Topic »

Permissions