Title: Default Storage Engine
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Default Storage Engine

 *  [atrosky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/atrosky/)
 * (@atrosky)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-storage-engine/)
 * Everything I read says the WordPress creates MyISAM tables but my installation
   is creating InnoDB tables. My.ini has the line:
 * default-storage-engine=MyISAM.
 * Why is this and should I be concerned?

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## Tags

 * [default](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/default/)
 * [engine](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/engine/)
 * [InnoDB](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/innodb/)
 * [installation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/installation/)
 * [myISAM](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/myisam/)
 * [storage](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/storage/)

 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
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 * Last reply from: [atrosky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/atrosky/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-storage-engine/)
 * Status: not resolved

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