Dropping and recreating databases in Microsoft SQL Server

Question

I am experimenting and learning with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1. I have a database where I made many experiments. Now I would like to drop and recreate it. So I extract th

Answer 1

+1 to AnandPhadke for his part of the code

This code will close all active connections to the database and then drop it

WHILE EXISTS(select NULL from sys.databases where name='YourDBName')
BEGIN
    DECLARE @SQL varchar(max)
    SELECT @SQL = COALESCE(@SQL,'') + 'Kill ' + Convert(varchar, SPId) + ';'
    FROM MASTER..SysProcesses
    WHERE DBId = DB_ID(N'YourDBName') AND SPId <> @@SPId
    EXEC(@SQL)
    DROP DATABASE [YourDBName]
END
GO

CREATE DATABASE YourDBName
GO