diff --git a/main/inc/lib/database.lib.php b/main/inc/lib/database.lib.php
index 46a8b0e5c2..d42b9c2dc4 100644
--- a/main/inc/lib/database.lib.php
+++ b/main/inc/lib/database.lib.php
@@ -179,28 +179,6 @@ class Database {
         //return self::format_glued_course_table_name(self::fix_database_parameter($database_name), $short_table_name);
     }
 
-    /**
-     * Gets a complete course table name from a course code
-     *
-     * @param string $course_code
-     * @param string $table the name of the table
-     * @todo this function should be deprecated use api_get_course_info()  
-     *   and then get_course_table() 
-     */
-    public static function get_course_table_from_code($course_code, $table) {
-        $course_table = self::get_main_table(TABLE_MAIN_COURSE);
-        $course_cat_table = self::get_main_table(TABLE_MAIN_CATEGORY);
-        $sql = "SELECT $course_table.db_name, $course_cat_table.code
-            FROM $course_table
-                LEFT JOIN $course_cat_table
-                    ON $course_table.category_code =  $course_cat_table.code
-            WHERE $course_table.code = '$course_code'
-            LIMIT 1"; 
-       
-        $result = self::fetch_array(self::query($sql));
-        return sprintf("%s.%s", $result[0], $table);
-    }
-
     /**
      * This generic method returns the correct and complete name of any 
      * statistic table of which you pass the short name as a parameter.
diff --git a/main/inc/lib/database.mysqli.lib.php b/main/inc/lib/database.mysqli.lib.php
index 348496fdc8..aff3c65266 100644
--- a/main/inc/lib/database.mysqli.lib.php
+++ b/main/inc/lib/database.mysqli.lib.php
@@ -168,25 +168,6 @@ class Database {
         return self::format_glued_course_table_name(self::fix_database_parameter($database_name), $short_table_name);
     }
 
-    /**
-     * Gets a complete course table name from a course code
-     *
-     * @param string $course_code
-     * @param string $table the name of the table
-     */
-    public static function get_course_table_from_code($course_code, $table) {
-        $course_table = self::get_main_table(TABLE_MAIN_COURSE);
-        $course_cat_table = self::get_main_table(TABLE_MAIN_CATEGORY);
-        $result = self::fetch_array(self::query(
-            "SELECT $course_table.db_name, $course_cat_table.code
-            FROM $course_table
-                LEFT JOIN $course_cat_table
-                    ON $course_table.category_code =  $course_cat_table.code
-            WHERE $course_table.code = '$course_code'
-            LIMIT 1"));
-        return sprintf("%s.%s", $result[0], $table);
-    }
-
     /**
      * This generic method returns the correct and complete name of any statistic table
      * of which you pass the short name as a parameter.
diff --git a/main/inc/lib/search/tool_processors/learnpath_processor.class.php b/main/inc/lib/search/tool_processors/learnpath_processor.class.php
index 7e76c6ab75..5a609510b0 100644
--- a/main/inc/lib/search/tool_processors/learnpath_processor.class.php
+++ b/main/inc/lib/search/tool_processors/learnpath_processor.class.php
@@ -92,8 +92,8 @@ class learnpath_processor extends search_processor {
         
         if (!empty($course_information)) {
             $lpi_table  = Database::get_course_table(TABLE_LP_ITEM);
-            $lp_table   = Database::get_course_table_from_code(TABLE_LP_MAIN);
-            $doc_table  = Database::get_course_table_from_code(TABLE_DOCUMENT);
+            $lp_table   = Database::get_course_table(TABLE_LP_MAIN);
+            $doc_table  = Database::get_course_table(TABLE_DOCUMENT);
             
             $lp_id = Database::escape_string($lp_id);
 
diff --git a/tests/main/inc/lib/database.lib.test.php b/tests/main/inc/lib/database.lib.test.php
index ec1bd4eb40..4d8222f1d6 100755
--- a/tests/main/inc/lib/database.lib.test.php
+++ b/tests/main/inc/lib/database.lib.test.php
@@ -152,15 +152,7 @@ class TestDatabase extends UnitTestCase {
 		$res=$this->dbase->get_course_table($short_table_name,$database_name);
 		$this->assertTrue(is_string($res));
 	}
-
-	function testGetCourseTableFromCode() {
-		$course_code='AYDD';
-		$table='course';
-		$ret = NULL;
-		$res=$this->dbase->get_course_table_from_code($course_code, $table);
-		$this->assertTrue(is_string($res));
-	}
-
+    
 	function testGetCourseTablePrefix() {
 		global $_configuration;
 		$res=$this->dbase->get_course_table_prefix($_configuration);