Clean up replication data

I have a develop machine for our web site. On this machine I have a copy of a database from the production site. The database on the production site is being replicated. When I copied the database to the develop machine and started testing some new developments I got the following error:
Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80040e37'

[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Invalid object name 'sysmergearticles'

This tells me that some replication data is also copied to the develop database.

Can anyone tell me how I can clean this data, or if I should copy the databse in a different way. (Now I create a new databse and do an import of the tables and stored procedures)You could try to remove replication by going under Tools(in EM)-->Replication-->Disable publishing,Distri...If it allows you to do so then it's fine.Or else you could try to first set the replication on your Test system and then remove ot by using the Tools-->Replication.
Or you may try the script below:

USE [DBNAME]
GO

-- Drop all replication triggers from the database
PRINT 'Drop all replication triggers from the database'
SELECT trigs.name AS TriggerName,
trigs.id AS TriggerID,
tables.name AS TableName
INTO #Triggers
FROM sysobjects trigs
INNER JOIN sysobjects tables
ON trigs.parent_obj=tables.id
where trigs.category=2 and trigs.xtype='TR'

DECLARE @.TriggerName varchar(100), @.TriggerID INT, @.TableName varchar(100)

DECLARE cur CURSOR for SELECT * FROM #Triggers
OPEN cur
FETCH NEXT FROM cur INTO @.TriggerName, @.TriggerID, @.TableName
WHILE @.@.FETCH_STATUS=0
BEGIN
EXECUTE ('DROP TRIGGER ' + @.TriggerName)
FETCH NEXT FROM cur INTO @.TriggerName, @.TriggerID, @.TableName
END
CLOSE cur
DEALLOCATE cur
GO

-- Drop all replication constraints from the database
PRINT 'Drop all replication constraints from the database'
DECLARE @.ConstName varchar(100), @.ConstID INT, @.TableName varchar(100)

SELECT CONST.name AS ConstName,
CONST.id AS ConstID,
tables.name AS TableName
INTO #Constraints
FROM sysobjects CONST
INNER JOIN sysobjects tables
ON CONST.parent_obj=tables.id
where CONST.xtype='C'

DECLARE cur CURSOR for SELECT * FROM #Constraints
OPEN cur
FETCH NEXT FROM cur INTO @.ConstName, @.ConstID, @.TableName
WHILE @.@.FETCH_STATUS=0
BEGIN
EXECUTE ('ALTER Table ' + @.TableName + ' DROP CONSTRAINT ' + @.ConstName)
FETCH NEXT FROM cur INTO @.ConstName, @.ConstID, @.TableName
END
CLOSE cur
DEALLOCATE cur

GO

-- Drop all replication User tables
PRINT 'Drop all replication User tables'
DECLARE @.TableName varchar(100), @.TableID INT

SELECT Tables.name AS ConstName,
Tables.id AS ConstID
INTO #Tables
FROM sysobjects Tables
where Tables.xtype='U' AND Status < 0 AND category=2050

DECLARE cur CURSOR for SELECT * FROM #Tables
OPEN cur
FETCH NEXT FROM cur INTO @.TableName, @.TableID
WHILE @.@.FETCH_STATUS=0
BEGIN
EXECUTE ('DROP Table ' + @.TableName)
FETCH NEXT FROM cur INTO @.TableName, @.TableID
END
CLOSE cur
DEALLOCATE cur

GO

-- Drop all replication User procedures
PRINT 'Drop all replication User procedures'
DECLARE @.ProcName varchar(100), @.ProcID INT

SELECT Procs.name AS ConstName,
Procs.id AS ConstID
INTO #Procedures
FROM sysobjects Procs
where procs.xtype='P' AND Status < 0

DECLARE cur CURSOR for SELECT * FROM #Procedures
OPEN cur
FETCH NEXT FROM cur INTO @.ProcName, @.ProcID
WHILE @.@.FETCH_STATUS=0
BEGIN
EXECUTE ('DROP Procedure ' + @.ProcName)
FETCH NEXT FROM cur INTO @.ProcName, @.ProcID
END
CLOSE cur
DEALLOCATE cur

GO

-- Drop all replication User Views
PRINT 'Drop all replication User Views'
DECLARE @.ViewName varchar(100), @.ViewID INT

SELECT MyViews.name AS ConstName,
MyViews.id AS ConstID
INTO #Views
FROM sysobjects MyViews
where MyViews.xtype='V' AND Status < 0 AND Name NOT LIKE 'sys%'

DECLARE cur CURSOR for SELECT * FROM #Views
OPEN cur
FETCH NEXT FROM cur INTO @.ViewName, @.ViewID
WHILE @.@.FETCH_STATUS=0
BEGIN
EXECUTE ('DROP View ' + @.ViewName)
FETCH NEXT FROM cur INTO @.ViewName, @.ViewID
END
CLOSE cur
DEALLOCATE cur

GO

-- Drop all replication rowguids, defaults and indexes
PRINT 'Drop all replication rowguids, defaults and indexes'
SELECT tables.name as TableName,
defaults.name AS DefaultName,
Indexes.IndexName,
cols.name AS ColumnName
INTO #Defaults
FROM sysobjects defaults
INNER JOIN syscolumns cols
ON defaults.ID=cols.cdefault
INNER JOIN sysobjects tables
ON tables.id=cols.id
INNER JOIN
(select sysindexes.name AS IndexName,
Tables.Name AS TableName,
Tables.id as TableID,
cols.Name AS ColumnName
from sysindexes
INNER JOIN sysobjects Tables
ON sysindexes.id=tables.id
INNER JOIN sysindexkeys k
on sysindexes.id=k.id
AND sysindexes.indid=k.indid
INNER JOIN syscolumns cols
ON k.id=cols.id
AND k.colid=cols.colid
where cols.name='rowguid') Indexes
ON Indexes.TableID=tables.id
where cols.name='rowguid'

DECLARE @.DefaultName varchar(100), @.IndexName varchar(100), @.TableName varchar(100), @.ColName varchar(50)

DECLARE cur CURSOR for SELECT * FROM #Defaults
OPEN cur
FETCH NEXT FROM cur INTO @.TableName, @.DefaultName, @.IndexName, @.ColName
WHILE @.@.FETCH_STATUS=0
BEGIN
EXECUTE ('ALTER TABLE ' + @.TableName + ' DROP CONSTRAINT ' + @.DefaultName)
EXECUTE ('DROP INDEX ' + @.TableName + '.' + @.IndexName)
EXECUTE ('ALTER TABLE ' + @.TableName + ' DROP COLUMN rowguid')
FETCH NEXT FROM cur INTO @.TableName, @.DefaultName, @.IndexName, @.ColName
END
CLOSE cur
DEALLOCATE cur
GO|||I've been trying to delete the conflict tables left over after EXEC sp_removereplication

Your script did it!