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I want to take a database offline. &nbsp;there are mulitiple databases on this sql instance. &nbsp;I don't want to detach the database and i don't want the other databases in the sql instance to be affected at all.<br />
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the database that needs to go offline needs to not allow users to connect at all<br />
i have sql 2008 and another server running sql 2012.<br />
how can i accomplish this?<br />
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Thank you
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I want to take a database offline.  there are mulitiple databases on this sql instance.  I don't want to detach the database and i don't want the other databases in the sql instance to be affected at all.

the database that needs to go offline needs to not allow users to connect at all
i have sql 2008 and another server running sql 2012.
how can i accomplish this?

Thank you

stop a database from serving requests... but not the instance

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 is a suite of relational database management system (RDBMS) products providing multi-user database access functionality.Component services include integration (SSIS), reporting (SSRS), analysis (SSAS), data quality, master data, T-SQL and performance tuning. Major improvements include the  Always On technologies and support for unstructured data types.