SAP Max DB Complete Uninstall

[Former Member]

Dear All,

               I need to uninstall SAP Max DB 7.9 completely, but I get some error when I proceed for uninstalling. Attached screenshot for the same. Could anyone please help to sort this issue to make clean Uninstall.

Thanks in Advance.

[JamesZ]

Hi,

This is because you have a database in the to-be-uninstalled maxdb software.

You must drop the database first, you can use database studio to delete the database, then continue to do the uninstall.

Best regards,
James

[Former Member]

Hi,

Please read

You must never delete individual executables, files or directories to uninstall the SAP MaxDB software. The uninstalling of the database must be controlled by the software using SDBUNINST or SDBSETUP.

For more details about this procedure, refer to SAP Note 599129 ("Uninstalling SAP MaxDB/SAP DB software using SDBUNINST").

If you are using the database in a cluster environment, you must refer to SAP Note 1156746 for more information about uninstalling.

As of SAP NetWeaver Release 7.00, you can also use SAP tools to uninstall the entire SAP system. SDBUNINST is called using SAPINST. This uninstalling process implicitly includes the SAP MaxDB database.

In this case, you can use the user input to control what the system is to delete:

- only users from the database
- the database and the user (the database software remains in this case)
- everything including the database software

While deleting the entire database including the database software, if you notice that another database also belongs to a software, the system automatically does not remove any software.

If an error occurs, you can use the following logs to perform an analysis:
- sapinst_dev.log
- sapinst_dev.*.log
- XCMDOUT.LOG

Read SAPnote: 599129 - Uninstalling SAP MaxDB/SAP DB software using SDBUNINST

Regards,

Prithviraj.