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elijahbuck on Jan 19, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: Archive a MySQL database

What is your criteria for a record being "old"? Once you've established your criteria, just archive the database as it is now and then drop the rows that match your oldness criteria.

wenbert on Jan 19, 2009 [–]

I imagine that I have also to query down to the dependent tables?

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