DROP WORKLOAD GROUP (Transact-SQL)
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* SQL Server *
SQL Server and SQL Managed Instance
Drops an existing user-defined Resource Governor workload group.
Transact-SQL syntax conventions.
Syntax
DROP WORKLOAD GROUP group_name
[;]
Arguments
group_name Is the name of an existing user-defined workload group.
Remarks
The DROP WORKLOAD GROUP
statement is not allowed on the Resource Governor internal or default groups.
When you execute DDL statements, you should be familiar with Resource Governor states. For more information, see Resource Governor.
If a workload group contains active sessions, dropping or moving the workload group to a different resource pool will fail when the ALTER RESOURCE GOVERNOR RECONFIGURE
statement is called to apply the change. To avoid this problem, you can take one of the following actions:
Wait until all the sessions from the affected group have disconnected, and then rerun the
ALTER RESOURCE GOVERNOR RECONFIGURE
statement.Explicitly stop sessions in the affected group by using the KILL command, and then rerun the
ALTER RESOURCE GOVERNOR RECONFIGURE
statement.Restart the server. After the restart process is completed, the deleted group will not be created, and a moved group will use the new resource pool assignment.
In a scenario in which you have issued the
DROP WORKLOAD GROUP
statement but decide that you do not want to explicitly stop sessions to apply the change, you can re-create the group by using the same name that it had before you issued the DROP statement, and then move the group to the original resource pool. To apply the changes, run theALTER RESOURCE GOVERNOR RECONFIGURE
statement.
Permissions
Requires CONTROL SERVER
permission.
Examples
The following example drops the workload group named adhoc
.
DROP WORKLOAD GROUP adhoc;
GO
ALTER RESOURCE GOVERNOR RECONFIGURE;
GO
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* SQL Managed Instance *
SQL Server and SQL Managed Instance
Drops an existing user-defined Resource Governor workload group.
Transact-SQL syntax conventions.
Syntax
DROP WORKLOAD GROUP group_name
[;]
Arguments
group_name Is the name of an existing user-defined workload group.
Remarks
The DROP WORKLOAD GROUP
statement is not allowed on the Resource Governor internal or default groups.
When you execute DDL statements, you should be familiar with Resource Governor states. For more information, see Resource Governor.
If a workload group contains active sessions, dropping or moving the workload group to a different resource pool will fail when the ALTER RESOURCE GOVERNOR RECONFIGURE
statement is called to apply the change. To avoid this problem, you can take one of the following actions:
Wait until all the sessions from the affected group have disconnected, and then rerun the
ALTER RESOURCE GOVERNOR RECONFIGURE
statement.Explicitly stop sessions in the affected group by using the KILL command, and then rerun the
ALTER RESOURCE GOVERNOR RECONFIGURE
statement.Restart the server. After the restart process is completed, the deleted group will not be created, and a moved group will use the new resource pool assignment.
In a scenario in which you have issued the
DROP WORKLOAD GROUP
statement but decide that you do not want to explicitly stop sessions to apply the change, you can re-create the group by using the same name that it had before you issued the DROP statement, and then move the group to the original resource pool. To apply the changes, run theALTER RESOURCE GOVERNOR RECONFIGURE
statement.
Permissions
Requires CONTROL SERVER
permission.
Examples
The following example drops the workload group named adhoc
.
DROP WORKLOAD GROUP adhoc;
GO
ALTER RESOURCE GOVERNOR RECONFIGURE;
GO
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* Azure Synapse
Analytics *
Azure Synapse Analytics
Drops a workload group. Once the statement completes, the settings are in effect.
Transact-SQL syntax conventions
Syntax
DROP WORKLOAD GROUP group_name
Arguments
group_name
Is the name of an existing user-defined workload group.
Remarks
A workload group cannot be dropped if classifiers exist for the workload group. Drop the classifiers before the workload group is dropped. If there are active requests using resources from the workload group being dropped, the drop workload statement is blocked behind them.
Examples
Use the following code example to determine which classifiers need to be dropped before the workload group can be dropped.
SELECT c.name as classifier_name
,'DROP WORKLOAD CLASSIFIER '+c.name as drop_command
FROM sys.workload_management_workload_classifiers c
JOIN sys.workload_management_workload_groups g
ON c.group_name = g.name
WHERE g.name = 'wgXYZ' --change the filter to the workload being dropped
Permissions
Requires CONTROL DATABASE permission