{"id":1114275,"date":"2016-05-13T08:14:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T15:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/600mb-database-caused-by-events-calendar\/"},"modified":"2016-05-30T09:35:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T16:35:03","slug":"600mb-database-caused-by-events-calendar","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/600mb-database-caused-by-events-calendar\/","title":{"rendered":"600mb database caused by events calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a problem with a site using the events calendar, after some investigation we have discovered that the database for the site is in excess of 600mb. After checking the database via phpmyadmin we have found that the Events Calendar and the Events Calendar Category Colors is accounting for the majority of this. The site is lagging massively, backups are not working and site admin emails are no longer being sent and I believe this is all an impact of the huge database size.<\/p>\n<p>Please can you advise if you have come across this before and how I can fix this.<\/p>\n<p>thank you<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1114275","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>600mb database caused by events calendar -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/600mb-database-caused-by-events-calendar\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"600mb database caused by events calendar -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I have a problem with a site using the events calendar, after some investigation we have discovered that the database for the site is in excess of 600mb. 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