drop-message-type-transact-sql.md

title	DROP MESSAGE TYPE (Transact-SQL)
description	DROP MESSAGE TYPE (Transact-SQL)
author	WilliamDAssafMSFT
ms.author	wiassaf
ms.date	03/06/2017
ms.service	sql
ms.subservice	t-sql
ms.topic	reference
f1_keywords	DROP_MESSAGE_TYPE_TSQL DROP MESSAGE TYPE
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DROP MESSAGE TYPE (Transact-SQL)

[!INCLUDE SQL Server - ASDBMI]

Drops an existing message type.

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Syntax

DROP MESSAGE TYPE message_type_name  
[ ; ]  

Arguments

message_type_name
The name of the message type to delete. Server, database, and schema names cannot be specified.

Permissions

Permission for dropping a message type defaults to the owner of the message type, members of the db_ddladmin or db_owner fixed database roles, and members of the sysadmin fixed server role.

Remarks

You cannot drop a message type if any contracts refer to the message type.

Examples

The following example deletes the //Adventure-Works.com/Expenses/SubmitExpense message type from the database.

DROP MESSAGE TYPE [//Adventure-Works.com/Expenses/SubmitExpense] ;  

See Also

ALTER MESSAGE TYPE (Transact-SQL)
CREATE MESSAGE TYPE (Transact-SQL)
EVENTDATA (Transact-SQL)