Restoring a DB when the database is “In Use”

We’ve all run into this issue before. We have a backup of a database that we need to restore into a DEV/QA environment, but when we attempt to restore, we get the “System.Data.SqlClient.SqlError: Exclusive access could not be obtained because the database is in use”

This error can be very frustrating to get around and a person can spend a LONG time trying to kill all of the attached queries/threads. I know I’ve (almost) lost my sanity on more than 1 occasiaion trying to do this.

The good news is that I’ve found a simple/easy way to restore a backup when the database is in use

Steps:

Setting the database to single user (you!)
restore the backup
set it back to multiuser

Here is the SQL Script I use.

Simple and fast. Enjoy!

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