Title: multiple databases
Last modified: March 6, 2018

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# multiple databases

 *  [pdewolff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pdewolff/)
 * (@pdewolff)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-databases-12/)
 * Question. i have started wit wordpress. I like to had my own database.
    However,
   i like to now what te best reason is voor having multiple databases.
 * who can help me with this?
 * Yes… i am a noob.

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 *  [RossMitchell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rossmitchell/)
 * (@rossmitchell)
 * [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-databases-12/#post-10045512)
 * I am not sure I understand your question.
 * Usually you have one database for each WordPress site. It is possible to run 
   several WordPress sites sharing the same database, in this case the tables all
   have distinct names, the separate sites do not share information through the 
   database.
 * It is unusual but possible to have a site access more that one database, this
   would be done for special database processing, where the second databases where
   interacting with different systems.

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-databases-12/#post-10045512)
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