The blog discusses how to delete SQL Server Database by using SQL Server Management Studio and Transact-SQL. The query is user want to delete a SQL Server database when data is no longer required or data moved to another server or database. When user drop the SQL Server database, then it cannot be retrieved without the backup.
Limitation: You cannot delete the System database file.
To delete SQL Server Database Snapshot user must have DROP DATABASE permission.Then, specify Database Snapshot name and execute DROP DATABASE statement.
CONTROL and ALTER ANY DATABASE permission or membership in db_owner is must required to delete the database
To drop a database using Transact-SQL, Connect to Database Engine, from the Standard bar, click New Query and execute the following query in a query box
To Drop multiple database using Transact-SQL, execute the following query
In this article you have seen how to delete a SQL Server Database using SQL Server Management Studio and Transact-SQL. The blog also covers how you can you delete the SQL Server Database and drop SQL Server database snapshot.