Kill a SPID

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  • Most normally I use kill restoring a staging database or similar when some slack alice developer has left open a dead connection from Visual Studio or perhaps SSMS or somesuch. I make no apologies on that one! Production is obviously a different matter...

  • Kill them all and let Codd sort them out.

  • Am I the only one who saw the title of this article and thought it was referring to the Katy Perry song - "I killed a PID and I liked it..."

  • Chris Houghton (7/13/2012)


    Kill them all and let Codd sort them out.

    :hehe:

  • Steve says: Lie down on zee couch. What seems to be the problem?

    DBA: "I've got a small situation here."

    Steve says: Small man complex?

    DBA: "I've got a SPID that don't want to die."

    Steve says: Is your name Kevorkian?

    DBA: "I've noticed this SPID this morning, and noticed that it was started about 3 day ago."

    Steve says: Have you been using Acid, you are very perceptive?

    DBA: "But I can't see what command was passed to xp_cmdshell."

    Steve says: Does not knowing make you feel depressed?

    DBA: "We're running SQL server 2000 SP4."

    Steve says: How was your relationship with your mother?

  • A thread five years old is considered recent? :blink:

  • When we tell the user community repeatedly to be out of the database by 6PM sharp during critical upgrades or maintenance windows, we mean it.:-D They have found out the hard way many times.

    "Technology is a weird thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. ...:-D"

  • "Kill it before it grows" E Clapton

    Not all gray hairs are Dinosaurs!

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