# How to reduce database size

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**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [February 27, 2019, 3:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-reduce-database-size/110204 "2019-02-27T03:44:42Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 27, 2019, 3:44am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-reduce-database-size/110204/1 "2019-02-27T03:44:42Z")

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Let’s say I wanted to slim down the DB a tad by deleting 1000 topics from a category. Basically deleting topics that get no attention or have no reason to be up anymore. From my understanding, even if I delete these 1000 topics, it won’t have any effect on the database size what-so-ever, as nothing gets truly deleted with discourse, yes? How do bigger sites manage when they clean up unwanted posts if true.

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