<p dir="ltr">... if you look next to those tables sizes there is an overhead column ... those overheads can be removed by optimizing the tables through php my admin this will Remove the overheads :) see this for more details <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/565997/in-mysql-what-does-overhead-mean-what-is-bad-about-it-and-how-to-fix-it">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/565997/in-mysql-what-does-overhead-mean-what-is-bad-about-it-and-how-to-fix-it</a></p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 10, 2013 8:58 AM, "Paola Di Maio" <<a href="mailto:paola.dimaio@gmail.com">paola.dimaio@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">thanks for the offlist replies<div>I have cleared the cache ad watchdog tables, approx 6 gb but</div><div>the db size has not gone down one bit</div><div>any ideas why?</div><div>thanks</div><div>PDM</div></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Paola Di Maio <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paola.dimaio@gmail.com" target="_blank">paola.dimaio@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div>excuse me good people o this list</div><div><br></div><div>my admin is away, ad I need to quickly and urgently flush</div>
<div>the database which has grown to exceed my quota in his absence</div><div>
<br></div><div>can someone advise if I can empty the following tables</div><div>without killing the site?</div><div><br></div><div><div>access log</div><div>search index</div><div>cache filter</div><div>node revisions</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>thanks a lot</div><span><font color="#888888"><div>PDM</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></font></span></div>
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