# Global Replace across database

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/global-replace-across-database/55930>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [January 17, 2017, 10:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/global-replace-across-database/55930 "2017-01-17T22:06:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [January 18, 2017, 4:39pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/global-replace-across-database/55930/4 "2017-01-18T16:39:16Z")

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Thanks, @techAPJ! I really appreciate it.

> [@techAPJ](#):
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> Considering that there are ~2.3 million posts this process will take some time to complete.

Indeed, but there are many fewer topics, so this will probably be better than re-running the import from scratch. Thanks very much. Right now, I’m running a script to create permalinks from when they moved from phpBB to IPB. That started yesterday and is still rolling. . .

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