Snippet: Drop all connections to a database (SQL 2005)

If you want to drop all the connections to a database immediately, you can use the following commands:

USE master
GO

ALTER DATABASE database name
SET OFFLINE WITH ROLLBACK IMMEDIATE
ALTER DATABASE database name
SET ONLINE

Alternatively you can kill all the processes using a database with this code:

USE master
go

DECLARE @dbname sysname

SET @dbname = 'name of database you want to drop connections from'

DECLARE @spid int
SELECT @spid = min(spid) from master.dbo.sysprocesses where dbid = db_id(@dbname)
WHILE @spid IS NOT NULL
BEGIN
EXECUTE ('KILL ' + @spid)
SELECT @spid = min(spid) from master.dbo.sysprocesses where dbid = db_id(@dbname) AND spid > @spid
END