Support:Database Cleanup

This article suggests methods to determine accounts and characters that are candidates for deletion.

Inconsistent data

Characters without rpobject

This was caused by a bug cause by storing gameEvents in an other thread before the database access was thread-safe. The bug was fixed in July 2009.

<source lang="sql"> SELECT * FROM characters WHERE NOT EXISTS (

   SELECT null FROM rpobject WHERE characters.object_id=rpobject.object_id

) ORDER BY timedate; </source>

Accounts without characters

<source lang="sql"> SELECT account.* FROM account WHERE NOT EXISTS (

   SELECT null FROM characters WHERE player_id=account.id

) AND status='active'; </source>

Metrics for discontinuted accounts

• Must have no entries in gameEvents (2008-06-30, 2009-08-17), itemlog (2008-03-24), kills (2010-01-08), accountban
• Remember to clean additional tables, character_stats, accountLink, ...
• Criteria
  • Level < 5
  • Age < 5, if it exist
  • no valuable items
  • No other characters on that account that are not candidates Multi character support is younger than 2008-06-30.

Cleanup Script

<source lang="sql> INSERT INTO del2 SELECT charname FROM del WHERE items='0 leather_armor, 0 club'; INSERT INTO del2 SELECT charname FROM del WHERE items='0 club, 0 leather_armor';

DELETE FROM del2 WHERE EXISTS (SELECT null FROM gameEvents WHERE charname=source); DELETE FROM del2 WHERE EXISTS (SELECT null FROM gameEvents_2008_08_21 WHERE charname=source); DELETE FROM del2 WHERE EXISTS (SELECT null FROM gameEvents_2009_02_19 WHERE charname=source); DELETE FROM del2 WHERE EXISTS (SELECT null FROM gameEvents_2009_08_17 WHERE charname=source);

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