Title: Coppermine MySQL Database
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Coppermine MySQL Database

 *  Resolved [frankydoody](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frankydoody/)
 * (@frankydoody)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coppermine-mysql-database/)
 * Hey all!
 * A quick question before I install Coppermine… Coppermine will use a MySQL database
   to store the pictures. I have 1 database from my host, but I can have more if
   I pay for it.
 * Can Coppermine and WordPress use the same database or will this screw things 
   up for WordPress (already installed)?

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coppermine-mysql-database/#post-147516)
 * Yes, they can use the same database.
 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coppermine-mysql-database/#post-147518)
 * So long as the ‘table_prefix’ for an application is different to that of all 
   other apps using the database, the only limitation (for most sites) is any db
   size limits imposed by the host.
 *  Thread Starter [frankydoody](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frankydoody/)
 * (@frankydoody)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coppermine-mysql-database/#post-147527)
 * Wow! Fast answers! I love that! Thanks a lot!
 * Trying to foresee the future.. I’ve never used Coppermine, or Exhibit, or any
   other software for online galleries. In the event that I wouldn’t like Coppermine,
   and remove it from my website, will my database be either screwed or filled with
   unused data? I don’t know SQL or MySQL, and I never managed databases before.
 *  [Cypher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cypher/)
 * (@cypher)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coppermine-mysql-database/#post-147541)
 * I currently use Coppermine as my gallery on my website and it’s cool. The first
   thing you should do is grab phpMyAdmin which is a wondeful tool to manage your
   databases. It allows you to use a nice GUI.
 * If you ever feel the need to remove Coppermine then you just need to remove all
   the database entires prefixed by ‘cpg_’ or whatever you chose for Coppermine.
 * Regards
 *  Thread Starter [frankydoody](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frankydoody/)
 * (@frankydoody)
 * [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coppermine-mysql-database/#post-147562)
 * Alrighty! Thanks!

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 * Last reply from: [frankydoody](https://wordpress.org/support/users/frankydoody/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/coppermine-mysql-database/#post-147562)
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