diff --git a/openldap-sql-linking.patch b/openldap-sql-linking.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index c7edf8c..0000000
--- a/openldap-sql-linking.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-Removes unnecessary linking of SQL libraries into slapd. This makes openldap-servers package
-independent on libodbc. (SQL backend is packaged separately in openldap-servers-sql.)
-
---- openldap-2.4.24.orig/build/top.mk
-+++ openldap-2.4.24/build/top.mk
-@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ SLAPD_SQL_LDFLAGS = @SLAPD_SQL_LDFLAGS@
- SLAPD_SQL_INCLUDES = @SLAPD_SQL_INCLUDES@
- SLAPD_SQL_LIBS = @SLAPD_SQL_LIBS@
- 
--SLAPD_LIBS = @SLAPD_LIBS@ @SLAPD_PERL_LDFLAGS@ @SLAPD_SQL_LDFLAGS@ @SLAPD_SQL_LIBS@ @SLAPD_SLP_LIBS@ @SLAPD_GMP_LIBS@ $(ICU_LIBS)
-+SLAPD_LIBS = @SLAPD_LIBS@ @SLAPD_PERL_LDFLAGS@ @SLAPD_SLP_LIBS@ @SLAPD_GMP_LIBS@ $(ICU_LIBS)
- 
- # Our Defaults
- CC = $(AC_CC)
diff --git a/openldap.spec b/openldap.spec
index 402f813..d1bdade 100644
--- a/openldap.spec
+++ b/openldap.spec
@@ -29,7 +29,6 @@ Source53: libexec-upgrade-db.sh
 
 # patches for 2.4
 Patch0: openldap-manpages.patch
-Patch1: openldap-sql-linking.patch
 Patch2: openldap-reentrant-gethostby.patch
 Patch3: openldap-smbk5pwd-overlay.patch
 Patch5: openldap-ai-addrconfig.patch
@@ -128,7 +127,6 @@ ln -s %{_includedir}/nspr4 include/nspr
 AUTOMAKE=%{_bindir}/true autoreconf -fi
 
 %patch0 -p1
-%patch1 -p1
 %patch2 -p1
 %patch3 -p1
 %patch5 -p1
@@ -509,6 +507,7 @@ exit 0
 * Thu Mar  1 2018 Matus Honek <mhonek@redhat.com> - 2.4.45-13
 - fix: openldap does not use Fedora build flags
   + makes use of redhat-rpm-config package
+- Drop superfluous back-sql linking patch
 
 * Wed Feb 28 2018 Matus Honek <mhonek@redhat.com> - 2.4.45-12
 - MozNSS Compat. Layer: fix: libldap tlsmc continues even after it fails to extract CA certificates (#1550110)