Title: Multiple blogs on the same database?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Multiple blogs on the same database?

 *  [chuckpuckett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chuckpuckett/)
 * (@chuckpuckett)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-blogs-on-the-same-database/)
 * I host my website (and WordPress blog) on hiwaay.com. I want to establish a second
   blog, but Hiwaay only provides (as part of hosting) a single database (!). I’d
   have to purchase a second one.
 * This may sound stupid, but employing the old dictum “there are no stupid questions”,
   I have to ask: can I set up a second blog and have it use the same database? 
   Just so I won’t sound completely stupid, I wondered if, since databases are just
   tables of data, why couldn’t two separate blogs coexist in the same database?[
   I suspect that the simplistic database employed here probably DOES prohibit such
   sharing, but asking the question is free. Buying a 2nd database is not].
 * Thanks for any help.

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-blogs-on-the-same-database/#post-1208804)
 * See [Installing Multiple Blogs](http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_Multiple_Blogs).
   It really is simple as using a different value for $table_prefix in the 2nd blog’s
   wp-config.php.

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