Originally Posted by
morragan
i discovered something while trying your repacks for 8788 and 8820:
You seem to have used the databases for a long time on your own server named hollywood before you packed them and uploaded them so we can download them. How i found this out?
This way:
When i imported your database for 8788, mangosd.exe kept crashing while loading the database when it tried to load the group tables. So i started looking at the tables and found out that most of the character tables had a lot of data stored in them (characters, what items they had, guilds etc etc). So i re-imported the character.sql and realmd.sql and emptied all the character tables (guild, groups etc) and now mangos loads without errors.
What i then did was the following:
I exported the database again to compare the sizes, and there's a huge difference:
Your database freshly extracted from the downloaded archive: 304 mb
my exported database after i cleaned the character tables: 86.7 mb
that's a difference of 200 mb!!!!
so my humble request to you is:
Could you please please clean the databases first before you upload them here?
i'm guessing the same issue happens with your 8820 database, which is 400-something mb big, so i assume you simply added new scripts to your existing database that you use for your own server.