drop-service-transact-sql.md

title	DROP SERVICE (Transact-SQL)
description	DROP SERVICE (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_SERVICE_TSQL DROP SERVICE
helpviewer_keywords	deleting services services [Service Broker], removing dropping services DROP SERVICE statement removing services
dev_langs	TSQL

DROP SERVICE (Transact-SQL)

[!INCLUDE SQL Server - ASDBMI]

Drops an existing service.

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

Syntax

DROP SERVICE service_name  
[ ; ]  

Arguments

service_name
The name of the service to drop. Server, database, and schema names cannot be specified.

Remarks

You cannot drop a service if any conversation priorities refer to it.

Dropping a service deletes all messages for the service from the queue that the service uses. [!INCLUDEssSB] sends an error to the remote side of any open conversations that use the service.

Permissions

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

Examples

The following example drops the service //Adventure-Works.com/Expenses.

DROP SERVICE [//Adventure-Works.com/Expenses] ;  

See Also

ALTER BROKER PRIORITY (Transact-SQL)
ALTER SERVICE (Transact-SQL)
CREATE SERVICE (Transact-SQL)
DROP BROKER PRIORITY (Transact-SQL)
EVENTDATA (Transact-SQL)