{"id":6638,"date":"2018-12-16T17:14:03","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T17:14:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dbtut.com\/?p=6638"},"modified":"2018-12-21T13:03:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T13:03:06","slug":"exclusive-access-could-not-be-obtained-because-the-database-is-in-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbtut.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/16\/exclusive-access-could-not-be-obtained-because-the-database-is-in-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive access could not be obtained because the database is in use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>ERROR MESAGGE:<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Exclusive access could not be obtained because the database is in use.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>EXPLANATION:<\/h3>\n<p>You can get this error because you can&#8217;t put an exclusive lock on the database because there are other sessions that use the database when you try to restore a database.<\/p>\n<h3>SOLUTION:<\/h3>\n<p>You can perform operations after killing active sessions in database.<\/p>\n<p>Or you can perform this operation with the help of the following script. 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