diff --git a/pkg/services/sqlstore/migrations/accesscontrol/permission_migrator.go b/pkg/services/sqlstore/migrations/accesscontrol/permission_migrator.go
index 992cf45867d..7f17ecc13cd 100644
--- a/pkg/services/sqlstore/migrations/accesscontrol/permission_migrator.go
+++ b/pkg/services/sqlstore/migrations/accesscontrol/permission_migrator.go
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ func (m *permissionMigrator) bulkCreateRoles(allRoles []*accesscontrol.Role) ([]
 	// bulk role creations
 	err := batch(len(allRoles), batchSize, func(start, end int) error {
 		roles := allRoles[start:end]
-		createdRoles, err := createRoles(roles, start, end)
+		createdRoles, err := createRoles(roles)
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ func (m *permissionMigrator) bulkAssignRoles(allRoles []*accesscontrol.Role) err
 }
 
 // createRoles creates a list of roles and returns their id, orgID, name in a single query
-func (m *permissionMigrator) createRoles(roles []*accesscontrol.Role, start int, end int) ([]*accesscontrol.Role, error) {
+func (m *permissionMigrator) createRoles(roles []*accesscontrol.Role) ([]*accesscontrol.Role, error) {
 	ts := time.Now()
 	createdRoles := make([]*accesscontrol.Role, 0, len(roles))
 	valueStrings := make([]string, len(roles))
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ func (m *permissionMigrator) createRoles(roles []*accesscontrol.Role, start int,
 }
 
 // createRolesMySQL creates a list of roles then fetches them
-func (m *permissionMigrator) createRolesMySQL(roles []*accesscontrol.Role, start int, end int) ([]*accesscontrol.Role, error) {
+func (m *permissionMigrator) createRolesMySQL(roles []*accesscontrol.Role) ([]*accesscontrol.Role, error) {
 	ts := time.Now()
 	createdRoles := make([]*accesscontrol.Role, 0, len(roles))
 
diff --git a/pkg/services/sqlstore/migrations/accesscontrol/test/ac_test.go b/pkg/services/sqlstore/migrations/accesscontrol/test/ac_test.go
index 715161380d5..19f63024ff0 100644
--- a/pkg/services/sqlstore/migrations/accesscontrol/test/ac_test.go
+++ b/pkg/services/sqlstore/migrations/accesscontrol/test/ac_test.go
@@ -203,18 +203,12 @@ func setupTestDB(t *testing.T) *xorm.Engine {
 	t.Helper()
 	testDB := sqlutil.SQLite3TestDB()
 
-	const query = `select count(*) as count from migration_log`
-	result := struct{ Count int }{}
-
 	x, err := xorm.NewEngine(testDB.DriverName, testDB.ConnStr)
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 
 	err = migrator.NewDialect(x).CleanDB()
 	require.NoError(t, err)
 
-	_, err = x.SQL(query).Get(&result)
-	require.Error(t, err)
-
 	mg := migrator.NewMigrator(x, &setting.Cfg{
 		IsFeatureToggleEnabled: func(key string) bool { return key == "accesscontrol" },
 	})