Restart the SQL Server database engine service in SSCMĪfter you are done, remove the -m you added at the startup option and restart the service again for multi user mode. Insert –m (don’t forget the semicolon and don’t leave any space) in front of the existing startup option. In the properties window, select the Advanced tab, scroll down until you see Startup Parameters In SQL Server Services, right click on the corresponding SQL Server database engine service you want to start in single user mode and select Properties Please make sure the SQL Server agent service is stop before starting the SQL Server in single user mode Open up SQL Server Configuration Manager (SSCM) There are a few ways of starting SQL Server instance in single user mode. The SQL instance is required to be started in single user mode in order to restore the master database from the backup. This T-SQL command does not work for master database.

If there are users connected to it and you need to restore the database immediately, you can set database to single mode with immediate rollback option to roll back all incomplete transaction and disconnect all other user connection. If the database already exists in the instance, the database needs to be set to single user mode to prevent other users connects to it. In my case, I’m running demos and love the fact that reinstalling SQL Server only took a few minutes.Restoring database requires exclusive access to the database. So, Backups are important! Even in Linux. Make sure the status is: active: (running)! In Ubuntu I use the following command to check the status of my SQL Server instance: The AnswerĮxecute the following command in the user contextĪnd, will be seen this added to the SQL Server 2017 Linux documentation. To my surprise! I got a quick response which I appreciate very much. I look everywhere for more information but found no blog post or any documentation about it.

The following message was logged in the log event: (see Image)Ĭommand executed, looking at the last log entry: “ sudo cat /var/opt/mssql/log/system_health_0_131668975728890000.xel” Back in March 30th, I posted a suggestion on SQL Server forum, about there was no documentation on how to rebuild SQL Server System database(s) in Linux.įor some reason, I finished doing an “ sudo apt update” follow by the “ sudo apt upgrade“, and after doing some OS updates “ my SQL Server stopped working”.

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