cleaning up after a Content Staging/Store deletion

Question

after trying to use content staging websites to no success and finding them buggy, we removed them.

I've noticed in the database, there are a lot of tables prefixed with s_ . I believe these tables were created when we creating new staging or store sites called Staging.

They are taking up a lot of room. Our DB is about 8GB and without the extra tables, it would be a bit under 2GB.

Is it safe to just go into phpMyAdmin and drop the tables?

I have tried this on a development server and everything seems ok but I am wondering if there are any gotchas I am not uncovering before I do it to the production database.

Thanks

Answer 1

If this is a production site, I would proceed with caution.

I would first back up the database

mysqldump -u [username] -p [db name] > db.backup.file.sql

I would then drop the tables, do testing on the site, and if everything is working as expected, then you are likely in the clear, however, if everything is not ok, then you will need to drop the database, create the database, and import the backup

mysql -u [username] -p -e "DROP DATABASE [db name]; CREATE DATABASE [db name];"
mysql -u [username] -p [db name] < db.backup.file.sql

Make sure the user you are using is capable of dropping and creating databases before proceeding.