Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 12/20/07 22:15

Plamen Ratchev (Plamen@SQLStudio.com) writes:
> 2). Use sp_who to find the session ID of the active connection and use
> KILL to terminate it.

Kind of difficult when Mike can't connect...

> 3). If all fails you can open a dedicated administrator connection:
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189595.aspx

Using the DAC definitely seems to be the best bet in this case. Mike
already has the server in single-user mode.

I am glad to see that you finally got the startup options working, Mike.


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