drop-endpoint-transact-sql.md

title	DROP ENDPOINT (Transact-SQL)
description	DROP ENDPOINT (Transact-SQL)
author	markingmyname
ms.author	maghan
ms.date	03/06/2017
ms.service	sql
ms.subservice	t-sql
ms.topic	reference
f1_keywords	DROP_ENDPOINT_TSQL DROP ENDPOINT
helpviewer_keywords	removing endpoints endpoints [SQL Server], removing deleting endpoints DROP ENDPOINT statement dropping endpoints
dev_langs	TSQL

DROP ENDPOINT (Transact-SQL)

[!INCLUDE SQL Server]

Drops an existing endpoint.

:::image type="icon" source="../../includes/media/topic-link-icon.svg" border="false"::: Transact-SQL syntax conventions

Syntax

DROP ENDPOINT endPointName  

Arguments

endPointName
Is the name of the endpoint to be removed.

Remarks

The ENDPOINT DDL statements cannot be executed inside a user transaction.

Permissions

User must be a member of the sysadmin fixed server role, the owner of the endpoint, or have been granted CONTROL permission on the endpoint.

Examples

The following example removes a previously created endpoint called sql_endpoint.

DROP ENDPOINT sql_endpoint;  

See Also

CREATE ENDPOINT (Transact-SQL)
ALTER ENDPOINT (Transact-SQL)
EVENTDATA (Transact-SQL)