In SQL Server, you can use the sysmail_delete_profile_sp stored procedure to delete an existing Database Mail profile.

You can delete a profile by providing either its name or its ID (but you must provide either one or the other).

Example – Delete by Name

Here’s an example to demonstrate how to delete a profile by specifying its name.

EXECUTE msdb.dbo.sysmail_delete_profile_sp
    @profile_name = 'DB Admin Profile';

Result:

Commands completed successfully.

This deleted the profile called “DB Admin Profile”.

The profile name is sysname with a default of NULL.

Example – Delete by ID

As mentioned, you can alternatively provide the ID. To do this, change the @profile_name argument to @profile_id:

EXECUTE msdb.dbo.sysmail_delete_profile_sp
    @profile_id = 1;

The profile ID is an int.

A Few Points

Deleting a profile does not delete the accounts used by the profile. You can delete accounts with the sysmail_delete_account_sp stored procedure.

The sysmail_delete_profile_sp procedure deletes the profile regardless of whether users have access to the profile.

Be careful when deleting default profiles. If there are no default profiles available when a user tries to send mail, the mail could fail (unless the user explicitly specifies a profile to use when sending the mail).

The sysmail_delete_account_sp stored procedure is located in the msdb database and its owner is dbo. Therefore, you’ll need to provide three part naming if msdb isn’t the current database.