How to Clean Up Database and Speed Up Development

Developers need a clean and lean developing environment to carry out their daily actions. Periodic cleaning of the Drupal database will help us save lots of time and effort. Golems, a leading Drupal development company, has published a new blog post on this topic.

The article deals with Drupal performance optimization and how to clear the database tables of Drupal modules and MySQL tables. The post also provides enough information to speed up development cycles.

The database for the site has a table named 'vidhist,'– short for video history. It is a record for every instance someone interacts with one of the videos on the site. Every time an action is performed on the site, more and more data are entered into the database. But there are ways to delete whatever that is unnecessary.

The blog post acquaints us with the methods and processes to clear these databases and improve the working speed. It also delves into the work of TRUNCATE and DELETE commands used to clear the MySQL table. Read the blog post to find out more.