can not delete tempdb

Hi,
after a huge ODBC operation to read some data from a DB table, my tempdb
is now 2.8 GB and I can not delete tempdb. Query analyzer does not work,
right mouse click and delete does not work, dbcc checks does not work. I
even stopped the service and started it again, but tempdb did not
regenerated and still 2.8 GB. I manually deleted the tempdb.mdf file and
log file but after I started the MSSQLSERVER service, they are all
recovered as 2.8 GB.
How can I get rid of this tempdb?
regards,
atxTempdb can not be dropped. In fact, your concern is just to reduce size of
the tempdb. You can use DBCC Shrinkdatabase or DBCC Shrinkfile for that.
"atx" wrote:
> Hi,
> after a huge ODBC operation to read some data from a DB table, my tempdb
> is now 2.8 GB and I can not delete tempdb. Query analyzer does not work,
> right mouse click and delete does not work, dbcc checks does not work. I
> even stopped the service and started it again, but tempdb did not
> regenerated and still 2.8 GB. I manually deleted the tempdb.mdf file and
> log file but after I started the MSSQLSERVER service, they are all
> recovered as 2.8 GB.
> How can I get rid of this tempdb?
> regards,
> atx
>|||Look at trying "Method 1 to Shrink Tempdb" in the KB article below
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=307487
"atx" <atx@.xerox.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> after a huge ODBC operation to read some data from a DB table, my tempdb
> is now 2.8 GB and I can not delete tempdb. Query analyzer does not work,
> right mouse click and delete does not work, dbcc checks does not work. I
> even stopped the service and started it again, but tempdb did not
> regenerated and still 2.8 GB. I manually deleted the tempdb.mdf file and
> log file but after I started the MSSQLSERVER service, they are all
> recovered as 2.8 GB.
> How can I get rid of this tempdb?
> regards,
> atx