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Removing a Mimer SQL Installation

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Caution: If you plan to remove any Mimer SQL databases, see Removing a Mimer SQL Database, please do so before removing the Mimer SQL installation.

To remove a Mimer SQL installation:

1. Check that no Mimer SQL applications or database servers are using the installation.
2. Run the MIMSETUP8 command procedure to uninstall shared images and deassign logical names:

 $ disk:[MIMERxxxxx]MIMSETUP8 -SYSTEM
 

3. Delete the Mimer SQL directory tree, for example:

 $ SET DEF disk:[000000]$ SET PROC/PRIV=BYPASS$ DELETE [.MIMERxxxxx...]*.*.*$ DELETE [.MIMERxxxxx...]*.*.*$ DELETE [.MIMERxxxxx...]*.*.*
 $ SET PROC/PRIV=NOBYPASS
 

Note: You may have to issue the DELETE command more than once, because the DELETE command will not remove directory files unless they are empty

4. If there are no other Mimer SQL installation trees in the system, you may want to delete the SQLHOSTS file and the Mimer SQL license key file:

 $ DELETE SYS$SPECIFIC:[SYSMGR]SQLHOSTS.DAT.*$ DELETE SYS$SPECIFIC:[SYSMGR]MIMERKEY.DAT.*

5. If you have added any Mimer SQL-related commands to the OpenVMS startup file: SYS$MANAGER:SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM or the OpenVMS shutdown file: SYS$MANAGER:SYSHUTDWN.COM, remove the commands.
6. If you have added any database-specific commands to the system startup file: SYS$MANAGER:SYSTARTUP_VMS.COM or the shutdown file: SYS$MANAGER:SYSHUTDWN.COM you should remove them.
7. Edit the SQLHOSTS files. Remove the database from the list of accessible databases. This will involve deleting it from the list of local databases on the node where it resides and deleting the remote database definition created for it on each other network node from which it was made accessible.

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