Question

I’m going to be using the ASP.NET Membership model on my website. However, there are multiple tables that I do not plan to ever use, such as: aspnetPaths aspnetPersonalizationAllUsers aspnetPersonalizationPerUser aspnetProfile aspnetWebEventEvents

Is it safe to delete these tables or will I cause problems with the way ASP.NET’s membership framework works (in System.Web.Security) ?

I really like keeping things clean and these tables are bothering me.

Answer 1

Use the aspnet_regsql.exe and choose which parts you want to remove:

-R all|m|r|p|c|w 

all – All services, including common tables and stored procedures shared by the services

m – Membership

r – Role Manager

p – Profile

c – Web Parts Personalization

w – Web Events

In the future, run the tool with the -A mr parameter to only add the membership and role manager.