Title: DB rubbish
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# DB rubbish

 *  [funsail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/funsail/)
 * (@funsail)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/db-rubbish/)
 * Looking at my DB, I see stuff like
 * _original_import_url
    _original_parent_id
 * They don’t look important. Can I delete them to trim down my DB? Is there a tool
   to do this?

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 *  [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/)
 * (@swansonphotos)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/db-rubbish/#post-3475103)
 * I would ask for much more info, for example, what table they are in and if you
   can decipher what added them…and still strongly caution such db edits…btw, why
   do you ask? Perceived site performance, note from host?
 *  Thread Starter [funsail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/funsail/)
 * (@funsail)
 * [13 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/db-rubbish/#post-3475110)
 * post meta, comment meta, all the meta tables
    DB is getting large, and I just
   have a plain old blog with pics in a gallery. Seems a lot of that crap is from
   multiple imports well due to many WP.com incidents I had with data issues, and
   yes I also wonder if host performance is affected.
 * This plan blog with posts/pics has used 100% of my shared CPU several times already,
   and it’s unbelievable to me how this could happen, so any small help is wanted.
 *  Thread Starter [funsail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/funsail/)
 * (@funsail)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/db-rubbish/#post-3475142)
 * From _postmeta
    _wp_old_slug _original_parent_id _original_import_url original_post_id
   _original_import_author
 * From _commentmeta
    jabber_published
 * These take up a lot of space from what I gather.

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/db-rubbish/#post-3475142)
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