Could not obtain exclusive lock on database 'model' - who is using it?

Question

when trying to run the following query in order to create a new database:

    CREATE DATABASE [Lunch]
     CONTAINMENT = NONE
     ON  PRIMARY 
    ( NAME = N'Lunch', 
FILENAME = N'E:\Data Files\Lunch.mdf' , 
SIZE = 110592KB , FILEGROWTH = 1048576KB ), 
     FILEGROUP [DATA] 
    ( NAME = N'Lunch_Data', 
FILENAME = N'E:\Data Files\Lunch_Data.ndf' , 
SIZE = 110592KB , FILEGROWTH = 1048576KB ), 
     FILEGROUP [NONCLUSTERED_INDEXES] 
    ( NAME = N'Lunch_nonclusteredindexes', 
FILENAME = N'E:\Data Files\Lunch_nonclusteredindexes.ndf' , 
SIZE = 110592KB , FILEGROWTH = 1048576KB )
     LOG ON 
    ( NAME = N'Lunch_log', 
FILENAME = N'F:\logFiles\Lunch_log.ldf' , 
SIZE = 524288KB , 
FILEGROWTH = 524288KB )
    GO

Getting the following error message:

Msg 1807, Level 16, State 3, Line 1

Could not obtain exclusive lock on database 'model'.

Retry the operation later.

Msg 1802, Level 16, State 4, Line 1

CREATE DATABASE failed.

Some file names listed could not be created. Check related errors.

what is using the model database and does not allow me to obtain the exclusive lock?

Answer 1

Your model database is locked now so what you should do is to find out the session that has a lock on it, this can be done using sys.dm_tran_locks:

select request_session_id
from sys.dm_tran_locks
where resource_type = 'database' and
      resource_database_id = 3 and
      request_type = 'LOCK' and
      request_status = 'GRANT';

The approach mentioned in another answer can not work if there was no request to model database at all, you can have a user that just opened SSMS query window with the context of model database and did not ever execute any query there, but that session still holds S lock on database resource.