KB19533: In MicroStrategy Developer, users are unable to uncheck or delete a database instance with no dependents after performing a MicroStrategy Project Merge

Salesforce Solutions Architect • Strategy

This knowledge base article describes an issue where users are unable to uncheck or delete a database instance with no dependents in MicroStrategy Developer

SYMPTOM:
When attempting to uncheck or delete a database instance with no dependents in Strategy Developer from the Project Configuration Editor after performing a project merge, the following error occurs:


Sample code/error:

"DB Instance object 'xxx' cannot be deleted because other objects depend on it"

CAUSE:
In Strategy, after performing a Project Merge, some managed objects may be merged as well into the project which will not let user uncheck or delete the database instance.

ACTION:
In Strategy Developer, perform the following steps:

Open the Strategy Project from where the database instance cannot be unchecked or deleted.
Go to Administration -> Projects and select "Delete unused managed objects" as shown in the image below.

After performing these steps, user now should be able to uncheck or delete the desired database instance.

This issue has been logged as KB ID: 000017813

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Published:

June 9, 2017

Last Updated:

September 13, 2018