Making the Database as Small as Possible

[Paul M]

Removing signatures is a simple sql command

[sql]Update usertextfield Set signature = " ";[/sql]

It will make little difference to the size of your database, which is frankly quite small already.

As for 56M taking 10 hours - that's a joke - it's about the speed of an ancient 11K modem.

For a server to server transfer you should be talking a couple of minutes at most.