Title: First Time User Issues
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# First Time User Issues

 *  Resolved [JoshJames](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshjames/)
 * (@joshjames)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-time-user-issues/)
 * In the control panel there are a list of tables with the following text:
 * EXCLUDE DATABASE TABLES FROM OPTIMIZATION: CHECKED TABLES WON’T BE OPTIMIZED!
 * My question is should I be unchecking these tables and optimising them? Are there
   any risks in doing so? Why wouldn’t I want to optimise them?
 * I am a very amateur web builder so this may be a very obvious question (sorry
   about that)
 * N
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/rvg-optimize-database/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/rvg-optimize-database/)

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 *  Plugin Contributor [cageehv](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cageehv/)
 * (@cageehv)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-time-user-issues/#post-6700635)
 * Hey JoshJames,
 * Normally you optimize all tables (leave all check boxes unchecked).
 * In rare cases the webmaster can decides to NOT optimize a heavy traffic table:
   a table with many transactions per minute or second, because it might delay the
   transactions (causing, some ‘hick-ups’).
    However, even in that case, optimizing
   these tables won’t cause any damage.
 * I hope this answers your question!
 * peace,
    Rolf
 *  Thread Starter [JoshJames](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshjames/)
 * (@joshjames)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-time-user-issues/#post-6700652)
 * Thanks Rolf, amazing ly quick reply. Much appreciated
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 * Last reply from: [JoshJames](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joshjames/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/first-time-user-issues/#post-6700652)
 * Status: resolved