My Errors & My Solutions
My Errors & My Solutions - It Could Happen To You
ALTER DATABASE failed because a lock could not be placed on database ‘{DatabaseName}’. Try again later.
Cause:
One or more processes regarding {DatabaseName}, also in sleeping status, are blocking your query
Solution:
Execute
EXEC sp_who2 --or sp_who
to know the list of SPIDs’ processes where DBName is {DatabaseName}
then execute the following command for each of them to kill these processes
KILL {SPIDNumber} --e.g. KILL 55
Now finally you can execute your query to ALTER the database.
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ALTER DATABASE failed because a lock could not be placed on database
Sergio Castelluccio