Cannot drop the distribution database 'distribution' because it is currently in use.

All,
I use stored procedures from C#.net to configure and remove
replication.
Whenever, i remove replication i try to first check if any process for
distribution DB (using sp_who2) is remaining in the SQL process space
and kill it.
The possible processes, i knew of using the distribution DB are:
1. SQL .NET data client provider
2. MSSQL EM
3. SQL Query Analyzer
I also checked that no cleanup processes are using it.
But still i get the error "Cannot drop the distribution database
'distribution' because it is currently in use."
Can anyone help in finding out who else is using the Distribution DB?
Please reply asap!
Thanks in advance,
Lavanya
It could be the distribution cleanup agent, the log reader, the distribition
agent or the merge agent. For a user database you would make it single-user
with yourself as the only user then drop it: Alter database distribution set
single_user with rollback immediate; use tempdb; drop database distribution.
For the distributor I'd run sp_dropdistributor followed by
sp_dropdistributiondb rather than the "drop database".
Cheers,
Paul Ibison SQL Server MVP, www.replicationanswers.com .
|||Try this select * From sys.sysprocesses where dbid=db_id('distribution')
in sql 2005 in sql 2000, try this
select * From sysprocesses where dbid=db_id('distribution')
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"Lavanya" <lavanyah@.gmail.com> wrote in message
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> All,
> I use stored procedures from C#.net to configure and remove
> replication.
> Whenever, i remove replication i try to first check if any process for
> distribution DB (using sp_who2) is remaining in the SQL process space
> and kill it.
> The possible processes, i knew of using the distribution DB are:
> 1. SQL .NET data client provider
> 2. MSSQL EM
> 3. SQL Query Analyzer
> I also checked that no cleanup processes are using it.
> But still i get the error "Cannot drop the distribution database
> 'distribution' because it is currently in use."
> Can anyone help in finding out who else is using the Distribution DB?
> Please reply asap!
> Thanks in advance,
> Lavanya
>