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CREATE PROCEDURE USP_READ_ONLY_ON AS
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-- WRITTEN BY: GREG LARSEN DATE: SEPTEMBER 26, 2001
-- DESCRIPTION: THIS PROCESS SETS ALL DATABASE TO READ ONLY STATUS
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-- GET THE NAME OF ALL DATABASES
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DECLARE ALLDATABASES CURSOR FOR
SELECT NAME FROM MASTER..SYSDATABASES WHERE NAME NOT IN ('MASTER', 'TEMPDB','MODEL','MSDB')
OPEN ALLDATABASES
DECLARE @DB NVARCHAR(250)
FETCH NEXT FROM ALLDATABASES INTO @DB
WHILE (@@FETCH_STATUS = 0)
BEGIN
PRINT 'SETTING DB=' +RTRIM(@DB) + ' TO READ ONLY.'
FETCH NEXT FROM ALLDATABASES INTO @DB
EXEC MASTER..SP_DBOPTION @DB, 'READ ONLY', 'TRUE'
END -- WHILE (@@FETCH_STATUS = 0)
CLOSE ALLDATABASES
DEALLOCATE ALLDATABASES 
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