sql job fails --- need help

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sql job fails --- need help

yogi123

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January 9, 2013 at 7:24 am

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Hello
I have one up and running job since few years but today i am facing one strange error.
here is error log
Executed as user: ABC\XYZ. Incorrect syntax near '*'. [SQLSTATE 42000] (Error 102). The step failed.
In that step there is no where '*'
here is command in the step
declare @spid varchar(2)
declare @execstat nvarchar(10)
declare kill_cursor cursor
for
select spid
from sysprocesses sp, sysdatabases sdb
where sp.dbid=sdb.dbid
and name='database_name'
open kill_cursor
Fetch next from kill_cursor into @spid
while (@@fetch_status =0)
Begin
set @execstat ='kill'+' '+@spid
exec sp_executesql @execstat
fetch next from kill_cursor into @spid
End
Close kill_cursor
deallocate kill_cursor
Please help me how to resolve.
Thanks

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Ant-Green SSC Guru Points: 113507 More actions · Answer 1

sp_dboption is a depreciated feature, user alter database instead

ALTER DATABASE myDB SET SINGLE_USER

yogi123 SSCrazy Points: 2932 More actions · Answer 2

anthony.green (1/9/2013)
sp_dboption is a depreciated feature, user alter database instead
ALTER DATABASE myDB SET SINGLE_USER

Thanks for reply

It was my bad

actual script is as below

declare @spid varchar(2)

declare @execstat nvarchar(10)

declare kill_cursor cursor

for

select spid

from sysprocesses sp, sysdatabases sdb

where sp.dbid=sdb.dbid

and name='database_name'

open kill_cursor

Fetch next from kill_cursor into @spid

while (@@fetch_status =0)

Begin

set @execstat ='kill'+' '+@spid

exec sp_executesql @execstat

fetch next from kill_cursor into @spid

End

Close kill_cursor

deallocate kill_cursor

Please help me into this

Ant-Green SSC Guru Points: 113507 More actions · Answer 3

What version of SQL are you running?

What is the purpose of the task at hand, do you just want to boot people out or are you setting the DB into single user mode?

sysprocesses and sysdatabases are also depreciated

yogi123 SSCrazy Points: 2932 More actions · Answer 4

anthony.green (1/9/2013)
What version of SQL are you running?
What is the purpose of the task at hand, do you just want to boot people out or are you setting the DB into single user mode?
sysprocesses and sysdatabases are also depreciated

The purpose of task is , restore database

so first need to kill all spids for that database and then

change database into single user mode

so right now, job is failed to step-1(kill all spids)

Ant-Green SSC Guru Points: 113507 More actions · Answer 5

ALTER DATABASE myDB SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE

yogi123 SSCrazy Points: 2932 More actions · Answer 6

anthony.green (1/9/2013)
ALTER DATABASE myDB SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE

Thank for Your reply

but job is failed to step-1 as killed spids

I need to resolve that.

Ant-Green SSC Guru Points: 113507 More actions · Answer 7

The above will do exactly the same as what you are trying to do, just it is the new way of doing it.

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anthony.green (1/9/2013)
The above will do exactly the same as what you are trying to do, just it is the new way of doing it.

so it means

ALTER DATABASE myDB SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE

command will kill all spids as well as set database into SINGLE_USER ?

Ant-Green SSC Guru Points: 113507 More actions · Answer 9

Yep that is correct.

ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE, will force any connections in that databases to stop executing and rollback what they where doing if they where in the middle of a transaction

SINGLE_USER does just what it says, after rollback, change DB to single user so that only 1 SPID can connect to it

yogi123 SSCrazy Points: 2932 More actions · Answer 10

anthony.green (1/9/2013)
Yep that is correct.
ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE, will force any connections in that databases to stop executing and rollback what they where doing if they where in the middle of a transaction
SINGLE_USER does just what it says, after rollback, change DB to single user so that only 1 SPID can connect to it

That's Awesome

Thanks

so Now the process will finish in only one step, I don't need to do in step-1 and step-2 for kill all connections and set database to single user mode.

Ant-Green SSC Guru Points: 113507 More actions · Answer 11

Ensure you do what you do in the same job step, no telling what may happen if it moves step and gets a different spid while its in single user mode not allowing you to access the DB as someone else beat you to it.

So

ALTER DATABASE myDB SET SINGLE_USER WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE

GO

RESTORE DATABASE myDB FROM DISK = 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'

GO

In the same job step.