Extreme wait-time when taking a SQL Server database offline

Question

I\'m trying to perform some offline maintenance (dev database restore from live backup) on my dev database, but the \'Take Offline\' command via SQL Server Management Studio is

Answer 1

anytime you run into this type of thing you should always think of your transaction log. The alter db statment with rollback immediate indicates this to be the case. Check this out: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189085.aspx

Bone up on checkpoints, etc. You need to decide if the transactions in your log are worth saving or not and then pick the mode to run your db in accordingly. There's really no reason for you to have to wait but also no reason for you to lose data either - you can have both.