Cannot restart SQL server (2000)

  • HI,

    I have come in this morning and looking at a SQL server 2000 database spotted that things were barely running.

    I decided that possibly stopping all jobs and restarting the service may be the solution (as this has worked before). I have done so and they disappeared from job activity monitor and tried to give the instance a restart.

    However I get a message from windows that it is unable to stop the service. I can still log onto SQL as administrator and when i look at processes I can see many are KILLED / ROLLEDBACK.

    However ALL of them are like:

    SPID 87: transaction rollback in progress. Estimated rollback completion: 100%. Estimated time remaining: 0 seconds.

    I am concerned that SQL is stuck on something. I'm assuming that restarting the server would be a bad solution, so can anyone help?

    Cheers,

    Sam

  • Had to resort to server reboot in the end. SQL came back up with no issues. This was a weird one for me. If anyone can explain this one I'm all ears. Did check task manager and spotted that no processes were running on SQL account.

  • Hard to tell there. I think it's entirely possible that some code just flaked, or something hung and a reboot fixed it. Typically if you didn't have a large transaction in process, the restart should be quick. Especially once you get to 100% in the rollback.

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