Removing an InForm study
- Purpose—Removes an InForm study and server.
- Where to perform—Server where the InForm core software is installed.
- Stop the study, using the following command:
pfadmin stop trial <studyname>
- Remove the study, using the following command:
pfadmin remove trial <studyname>
or
To remove the DSNs from ODBC data source administration at the same time, use the following command
pfadmin remove trial <studyname> /DSN
- If you did not remove the study DSN with the pfadmin utility, remove it through the Windows Data Sources (ODBC) utility:
- Select Start > Administrative Tools > Data Sources (ODBC).
- Select the System DSN tab.
- Select the study DSN, and click Remove.
- If the study has a randomization or CDD DSN, remove those, as well.
- Click OK.
- After removing all studies from an InForm server, remove the server with the following command:
pfadmin remove server <servername>
- Back up the study database.
- Remove the study user from the database. As the pfdbadmin user, issue the following SQL*Plus command:
drop user <study_uid> cascade;
Caution: When you perform this step, all study data is removed. Make sure that the backup is complete before you drop the study user.