Dropping the BAM or Data Mart Database

After you disable BAM or the Data Mart, you can drop the respective database. You can use Process Administrator to either drop the database directly, or to generate an SQL statement for execution by a database administrator.

Bear in mind that dropping the database only executes a DROP DATABASE SQL statement on the BAM or Data Mart database. It does not remove the external resource.

  1. Click on Process Monitoring. The Process Monitoring page appears.
  2. Select the BAM or Data Mart tab.
  3. In the Advanced Properties section, click Manage Database. The Manage Database page appears.
  4. Select the Drop the database.
  5. If you have administrator access to the database, enter the database administrator user and password, and click OK. If Process Administrator reports that the database has been dropped successfully, you are done. The instructions below are for users without administrator access to the database.
  6. If you do not have administrator access, click Show SQL Statements. Your web browser will ask you if you want to save the sql.txt file.
  7. Save the file to any location, and send it to the database administrator, who will run the SQL statement in the file, creating the database. Note that this file will contain a single statement in the form:
    DROP DATABASE database_name
    You may simply be able to ask your DBA to drop the database by name. The advantage of sending an SQL file is to prevent dropping a similarly named database.