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Kill All Processes in a Particular DataBase

Feb 19, 2008
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>>Script Language and Platform: SQL SERVER
The following stored procedure(script) helps to kill all processes in a particular database
without current process.

Author: Shiva


Create  Proc Sp_KillAllProcessInDB 
@DbName VarChar(100)
as
        if db_id(@DbName) = Null
                begin
                        Print ‘DataBase dose not Exist’
                end
        else
                Begin
                        Declare @spId Varchar(30)
                        DECLARE TmpCursor CURSOR FOR
                        Select  ‘Kill ‘ + convert(Varchar, spid)  as spId
                        from master..SysProcesses
                        where db_Name(dbID) = @DbName
                        and spId <> @@SpId
                        and dbID <> 0
                        OPEN TmpCursor
                        FETCH NEXT FROM TmpCursor
                        INTO @spId 
                        WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
                        BEGIN
                                Exec (@spId)
                                FETCH NEXT FROM TmpCursor
                                INTO @spId 
                        END
                        CLOSE TmpCursor
                        DEALLOCATE TmpCursor
                endTo ExecuteExec Sp_KillAllProcessInDB [DBName]



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