Recently came across a situation where reporting logins were interfering with nightly jobs due to blocking. After a number of attempts of trying to resolve the blocking, it was decided that a stored procedure that disabled the login and killed SPIDs was the most pragmatic solution. This is the code I came up with to resolve the issue.
SET NOCOUNT ON DECLARE @rowsToProcess INT; DECLARE @CurrentRow INT; DECLARE @SelectSpid INT; DECLARE @user VARCHAR(30); DECLARE @killString varchar(50); DECLARE @DisableLogin VARCHAR(100); SET @user = ''; -- add user -- disable login of user to prevent more logins SET @DisableLogin = 'Alter Login ' + @user + ' Disable;'; EXEC(@DisableLogin); -- Create Table variable to store the spid info Declare @BusinessObjectsTable Table ( rowid INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY IDENTITY(1,1), spid INT, loginname VARCHAR(30), spid_status VARCHAR(15) ); -- query for the SPID based on user and store it in the table variable INSERT INTO @ReportObjectsTable (spid, loginname, spid_status) SELECT spid, loginame, status FROM sys.sysprocesses WHERE loginame = @user; -- set rows to process SET @rowsToProcess = @@ROWCOUNT; -- loop through SPIDs to kill SET @CurrentRow = 0; WHILE @CurrentRow < @rowsToProcess BEGIN SET @CurrentRow = @CurrentRow + 1; SELECT @SelectSpid = spid FROM @ReportObjectsTable WHERE rowid = @CurrentRow SET @killString = 'Kill ' + CONVERT(VARCHAR, @SelectSpid); -- verify spid still exits and belongs to correct user before killing IF EXISTS(SELECT spid, loginame FROM sys.sysprocesses WHERE spid = @SelectSpid AND loginame = @user) BEGIN PRINT @killString; -- verificatioin step I used to test against EXEC (@killString) END; ELSE PRINT 'No spid to kill' WAITFOR DELAY '00:00:05'; -- add delay if needed END;
On the other side, I scripted out a job to re-enable that could be called from a separate stored procedure at the conclusion of the job.