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How do you kill all database processes on SQL Server?

Sometimes fire is good.

A handy piece of SQL that I've used more than a few times.

USE MASTER
GO
DECLARE @DatabaseName AS VARCHAR(500)
-->Provide the DataBaseName for which want to Kill all processes.
SET @DatabaseName='YourDataBaseName'
DECLARE @Spid INT
DECLARE KillProcessCur CURSOR FOR
  SELECT spid
  FROM   sys.sysprocesses
  WHERE  DB_NAME(dbid) = @DatabaseName
OPEN KillProcessCur
FETCH Next FROM KillProcessCur INTO @Spid
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
  BEGIN
      DECLARE @SQL VARCHAR(500)=NULL
      SET @SQL='Kill ' + CAST(@Spid AS VARCHAR(5))
      EXEC (@SQL)
      PRINT 'ProcessID =' + CAST(@Spid AS VARCHAR(5))
            + ' killed successfull'
      FETCH Next FROM KillProcessCur INTO @Spid
  END
CLOSE KillProcessCur
DEALLOCATE KillProcessCur

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