Title: Installer / Insert table in a database
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Installer / Insert table in a database

 *  Resolved [adeacetis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajmariff/)
 * (@ajmariff)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installer-insert-table-in-a-database/)
 * Hi Cory,
    I don’t know whether it is the good place to post or not.
 * Well, Duplicator works fine for me and it made me save tons of hours. Tons, really…
 * There’s only one thing that annoys me. While importing the database, you can 
   either create a new one or erase all data from existing db.
 * When you rent a shared hosting service, you only have a limited number of database.
 * I wondered if it was possible to add a feature that allow the user to INSERT 
   the table into an existing database WITHOUT deleting the existing content.
 * As a third choice, it would be a must.
 * Thank you very much for your Understanding,
 * Axel

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 *  [Cory Lamle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corylamleorg/)
 * (@corylamleorg)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installer-insert-table-in-a-database/#post-5567097)
 * Hey Ajmariff,
 * The reason it is like this because if you try to run the installer and the table
   already exists, then you can start to have a large number of data integrity issues.
   I think this may be a possibility for future work or a pro version, but right
   now as a hobby project there are really too many problems that could happen, 
   which would open a whole other can of worms for unsuspecting users. I’ll keep
   this in mind however if I can come up with a solution that doesn’t generate more
   possible issues and support tickets…
 * Cheers~
 *  Thread Starter [adeacetis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ajmariff/)
 * (@ajmariff)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installer-insert-table-in-a-database/#post-5567118)
 * Hi,
 * Thanks for paying attention to security. I’ve had bad days last time because 
   of some hackers.
    For mitigating risk, I always uninstall the plugin on site 
   in production.
 * WP has tried to avoid that kind of issue with prefix on table names. Maybe you
   can forbid table insertion if they have the same prefix.
    Wouldn’t it be possible
   easily ?
 * Cheers!
 * Axel
 *  [Cory Lamle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corylamleorg/)
 * (@corylamleorg)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installer-insert-table-in-a-database/#post-5567146)
 * Nothing is ever really easy per say 🙂
 * I’ll try to look into in a future version, if it doesn’t get overly involved…
 * Cheers~

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 * Last reply from: [Cory Lamle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corylamleorg/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/installer-insert-table-in-a-database/#post-5567146)
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