diff --git a/pkg/storage/unified/sqlnext/sql_resources.go b/pkg/storage/unified/sqlnext/sql_resources.go
index abea94565a5..d40f14d90a1 100644
--- a/pkg/storage/unified/sqlnext/sql_resources.go
+++ b/pkg/storage/unified/sqlnext/sql_resources.go
@@ -139,6 +139,10 @@ func (s *sqlResourceStore) WriteEvent(ctx context.Context, event resource.WriteE
 	return 0, ErrNotImplementedYet
 }
 
+func (s *sqlResourceStore) Watch(context.Context, *resource.WatchRequest) (chan *resource.WatchEvent, error) {
+	return nil, ErrNotImplementedYet
+}
+
 // Create new name for a given resource
 func (s *sqlResourceStore) GenerateName(_ context.Context, _ *resource.ResourceKey, _ string) (string, error) {
 	return util.GenerateShortUID(), nil
diff --git a/pkg/storage/unified/sqlnext/watch.go b/pkg/storage/unified/sqlnext/watch.go
deleted file mode 100644
index feb5a5da4bb..00000000000
--- a/pkg/storage/unified/sqlnext/watch.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,61 +0,0 @@
-package sqlnext
-
-import (
-	"context"
-	"time"
-
-	"github.com/grafana/grafana/pkg/infra/log"
-	"github.com/grafana/grafana/pkg/storage/unified/resource"
-)
-
-func (s *sqlResourceStore) Watch(context.Context, *resource.WatchRequest) (chan *resource.WatchEvent, error) {
-	return nil, ErrNotImplementedYet
-}
-
-func (s *sqlResourceStore) poller(stream chan *resource.WatchEvent) {
-	var err error
-
-	since := int64(0)
-	interval := 1 * time.Second
-
-	t := time.NewTicker(interval)
-	defer t.Stop()
-
-	for {
-		select {
-		case <-s.ctx.Done():
-			return
-		case <-t.C:
-			since, err = s.poll(since, stream)
-			if err != nil {
-				s.log.Error("watch error", "err", err)
-			}
-			t.Reset(interval)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-func (s *sqlResourceStore) poll(since int64, out chan *resource.WatchEvent) (int64, error) {
-	ctx, span := s.tracer.Start(s.ctx, "storage_server.poll")
-	defer span.End()
-	ctxLogger := s.log.FromContext(log.WithContextualAttributes(ctx, []any{"method", "poll"}))
-
-	for hasmore := true; hasmore; {
-		err := func() error {
-			if false {
-				// TODO
-				out <- &resource.WatchEvent{}
-			}
-
-			// TODO, copy from entity store
-			hasmore = false
-			return nil
-		}()
-		if err != nil {
-			ctxLogger.Error("poll error", "error", err)
-			return since, err
-		}
-	}
-
-	return since, nil
-}