Drop Distribution DB, Publications, Subscriptions, jobs, agents etc.,

Question

Looks like my replication set up is all messed up. I like to cleanup all the existing setup and startover. How do I do that?
First I am not able to delete the subscriptions,
Getting the error "Invalid Object Name 'dbo.MSmerge_agents'

Answer 1

Great, so now all the publications and subscriptions are gone. Let's work on the distribution database now.
Issue a call to sp_helpdistpublisher on the problem server. This will give you a list of the publishers which are using this server for its distribution database.
Then issue calls to sp_helpsubscriberinfo to return a list of subscribers. For each one issue the below call
sp_dropsubscriber 'SubscriberName'
Then issue a call to sp_helppublisher to get a list of publishers which use this distributor as its distributor and then issue calls to exec sp_dropdistpublisher  for each publisher.
After that is done try this:
exec sp_dropdistributiondb @database = N'distribution'
GO
exec sp_dropdistributor @no_checks = 1, @ignore_distributor = 1
GO
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