Thread:Project:Support desk/Using transclusion to stop database growing huge?/reply

Hi!

> ''Can I stop the database growing so much if I put the large stable part into a separate file, then transclude the large file into the introductory file? ''

Yes, you can. With each edit the wikitext of exactly that page, which you edited gets saved in the database one more time. When this page is 250 kb in size, then the new record has a size of 250 kb; when it is only 4 kb, maybe because you split one article into many small parts, then it only grows by 4 kb.

You might also be interested in reducing the size of the database, which shows some further possibilities on how to make the DB smaller.