Removing products from DB

17 Nov 2008, 3:48 PM

New Zenner

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Removing products from DB

Hi,

I've never done this before, just disabled a product when it's not been needed but our DB is now getting cluttered with products that are no longer required.

What happens to past orders when a products on those past orders is removed totally from the DB. Does this have a detrimental effect on those past orders?

The way I figured was that surely, Zen would allow for the deletion of discontinued products gracefully.

Any advice or past experience would be handy.

Cheers,
Arthur

17 Nov 2008, 3:50 PM

drbyte

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Re: Removing products from DB

You can delete products no longer used.
The information for products in a particular order is stored with that order.

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