| title | DROP EXTERNAL RESOURCE POOL (Transact-SQL) | Microsoft Docs | ||
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| ms.date | 08/07/2019 | ||
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| author | dphansen | ||
| ms.author | davidph | ||
| manager | cgronlund |
[!INCLUDEtsql-appliesto-ss2016-xxxx-xxxx-xxx-md]
Deletes a Resource Governor external resource pool used to define resources for external processes.
::: moniker range="=sql-server-2016||=sqlallproducts-allversions"
For [!INCLUDErsql-productname-md] in [!INCLUDEsssql15-md], the external pool governs rterm.exe, BxlServer.exe, and other processes spawned by them.
::: moniker-end
::: moniker range=">=sql-server-2017||=sqlallproducts-allversions"
For [!INCLUDErsql-productnamenew-md], the external pool governs rterm.exe, python.exe, BxlServer.exe, and other processes spawned by them.
::: moniker-end
External resource pools are created by using CREATE EXTERNAL RESOURCE POOL (Transact-SQL) and modified by using ALTER EXTERNAL RESOURCE POOL (Transact-SQL).
Transact-SQL Syntax Conventions.
DROP EXTERNAL RESOURCE POOL pool_name
pool_name
The name of the external resource pool to be deleted.
You cannot drop an external resource pool if it contains workload groups.
You cannot drop the Resource Governor default or internal pools.
When you are executing DDL statements, we recommend that you be familiar with Resource Governor states. For more information, see Resource Governor.
Requires CONTROL SERVER permission.
The following example drops the external resource pool named ex_pool.
DROP EXTERNAL RESOURCE POOL ex_pool;
GO
ALTER RESOURCE GOVERNOR RECONFIGURE;
GO