Title: just empty database tables OK?
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# just empty database tables OK?

 *  Resolved [les112](https://wordpress.org/support/users/les112/)
 * (@les112)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/just-empty-database-tables-ok/)
 * I am refurbishing my website proper.com, on a different domain. Then I want to
   migrate this refurbished wordpress site to my main domain, proper.com using duplicator.
   I know I have to delete all the public.html files of the original proper.com 
   site, but can I just remove the tables from the original proper.com database 
   using duplicator to repopulate the tables from the refurbished site.
    And do 
   I use the name and user and password from the original proper.com database?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/)

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 *  [Cory Lamle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corylamleorg/)
 * (@corylamleorg)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/just-empty-database-tables-ok/#post-6273547)
 * Its recommended to create a new database and then just connect to it. There is
   an option on the installer to connect to an existing database, but this will **
   remove all** the tables in the database you connect to and install the new ones
   based on the SQL file in the package.

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