# Clear, empty, delete database for another import (development)

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/clear-empty-delete-database-for-another-import-development/66498>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [July 20, 2017, 10:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clear-empty-delete-database-for-another-import-development/66498 "2017-07-20T10:20:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![pgr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pgr/32/156783_2.png) [@pgr](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pgr)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2020, 9:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clear-empty-delete-database-for-another-import-development/66498/9 "2020-04-17T09:04:01Z")

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Have a look here

> [@DB Ownership / Wiping out Production](https://meta.discourse.org/t/db-ownership-wiping-out-production/113534/12):
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> Just to leave some feedback here, since I had to re-do this today. What eventually worked for me is to delete the full /docker-app/standalone directory no need to stop the container, the next command includes that in its script run ./launcher rebuild app the rebuild took about 10 minutes and included an update to the code by pulling it from GitHub. I had some trouble on my next step, so I’ll also document it here in case it’s useful for someone. I needed to create a privileged database user …

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