# 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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They don’t take up much room. If it were 20 years ago, this might be an issue. If your site had 1, 000,000 topics and you wanted to delete 800,000 then you might have a problem to solve.

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