Title: Database Question
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Database Question

 *  [stevewilson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevewilson/)
 * (@stevewilson)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-question-8/)
 * I created a tiny table to hold a status “flag” but it occurs to me that one visitor’s
   flag setting will clobber the state of the previous visitor. True?
 * Or does WordPress create on the fly a separate instance of the database for each
   visitor?

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 *  [vtxyzzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vtxyzzy/)
 * (@vtxyzzy)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-question-8/#post-2465182)
 * There is only one database – all visitors use the same one. The only way I am
   aware of to uniquely set a value for a visitor is to use cookies.
 * If you do a Google search on ‘php using cookies’, you will get a number of articles
   explaining how to do this. For example, this one: [http://www.websitepublisher.net/article/php_cookies/](http://www.websitepublisher.net/article/php_cookies/)

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