DROP MESSAGE TYPE (Transact-SQL)

**APPLIES TO:** SQL Server (starting with 2008) Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Data Warehouse Parallel Data Warehouse

Drops an existing message type.

Transact-SQL Syntax Conventions

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)