Dynamics CRM on-premise: How to delete managed solution

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Problem

Issue according to which “Solution XXX cannot be deleted. The following components are required by other components in the system” This type of error occurs. 

Warning

This is an unsupported modification to the CRM database and may corrupt it.

Solution

This managed solution can be deleted through applying some queries on database of Dynamics CRM On-Premise. To do that first of all you have to get ID of Solution which we can get either from database or from Dynamics CRM URL. Use following sql query to get solution id from database :

Select SolutionId from SolutionBase where UniqueName='<solution-name-here>'

Now use following queries to remove that particular solution from dynamics crm:

Begin  try

Begin  Transaction Deletesolution

Delete from SolutionComponentBase where SolutionId='SolutionId Here' --(1)

Delete  from SolutionComponentBase where solutioncomponentid in (Select solutioncomponentid from SolutionComponent whereSolutionId='SolutionId Here') --(2)

Delete  From DependencyBase where DependentComponentNodeId in (Select DependentComponentNodeId from Dependency whereDependentComponentBaseSolutionId='SolutionId Here') --(3)

Delete  from DependencyBase where RequiredComponentNodeId in (Select RequiredComponentNodeId from Dependency whereRequiredComponentBaseSolutionId='SolutionId Here') --(4)

Delete  from DependencyNodeBase where BaseSolutionId='SolutionId Here' --(5)

Delete  from dependencybase where DependentComponentNodeId in (select dependencynodeid from dependencynode whereTopSolutionId='SolutionId Here') --(6)

Delete  from dependencybase where RequiredComponentNodeId in (select dependencynodeid from dependencynode whereTopSolutionId='SolutionId Here') --(7)

Delete  from DependencyNodeBase where TopSolutionId='SolutionId Here' --(8)

Delete  from SolutionBase where solutionid='SolutionId Here' --(9)

 

Commit  Transaction Deletesolution

End  Try

Begin  Catch

rollback  transaction Deletesolution

End  Catch