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MySQL statement for WordPress wp_posts table breaking down data size for each post_type
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-- This will show you the size of post, revision, attachment and other fields in `wp_posts` | |
-- this method can be applied to any WordPress table to get a breakdown of clutter and data use | |
-- this will not get you index size, but WP indexes are typically a small fraction of overall table size | |
SELECT post_type | |
COUNT(*) AS NUM, -- adds a column with the number of rows for each key value for comparison | |
SELECT post_type, COUNT(*) AS NUM, | |
(SUM(LENGTH(ID) -- add all column data together to group the total row data by post_type | |
+LENGTH(post_author) | |
+LENGTH(post_date) | |
+LENGTH(post_date_gmt) | |
+LENGTH(post_content) | |
+LENGTH(post_title) | |
+LENGTH(post_excerpt) | |
+LENGTH(post_status) | |
+LENGTH(comment_status) | |
+LENGTH(ping_status) | |
+LENGTH(post_password) | |
+LENGTH(post_name) | |
+LENGTH(to_ping) | |
+LENGTH(pinged) | |
+LENGTH(post_modified) | |
+LENGTH(post_modified_gmt) | |
+LENGTH(post_parent) | |
+LENGTH(guid) | |
+LENGTH(menu_order) | |
+LENGTH(post_type)))/1048567 -- divide total bytes by (1024 * 1024) for MB | |
AS `Data in MB` | |
FROM wp_posts -- replace with your prefix here | |
GROUP BY post_type | |
ORDER BY `Data in MB` DESC; |
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