Title: Database gets huge
Last modified: November 11, 2020

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# Database gets huge

 *  Resolved [lewebsimple](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lewebsimple/)
 * (@lewebsimple)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-gets-huge/)
 * One of our clients is using Carts Guru and the database is now 4.8Gb which makes
   it quite inconvenient for backing up, etc.
 * Is there a specific reason this plugin needs to store so much information that
   couldn’t be stored in Carts Guru’s own backend ?
 * We will be asking our customer to switch marketing platform if this keeps getting
   bigger for no apparent reason.

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 *  Thread Starter [lewebsimple](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lewebsimple/)
 * (@lewebsimple)
 * [5 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-gets-huge/#post-13704555)
 * This is caused by WC session being uninitialized for logged-out users, thus generating
   a new cart for every request to the site.
 * Forcing the session initialization prevents most of the cart duplication:
 *     ```
       add_action( 'woocommerce_init', 'yourtheme_woocommerce_init_session' );
       function yourtheme_woocommerce_init_session() {
       	if ( ! WC()->session->has_session() ) {
       		WC()->session->set_customer_session_cookie( true );
       	}
       }
       ```
   

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