Title: Separated Databases
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Separated Databases

 *  [luciandavidescu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luciandavidescu/)
 * (@luciandavidescu)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/separated-databases/)
 * I have read previous entries on this topic ([http://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-with-seperate-dbs](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-with-seperate-dbs),
   [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-installation-with-separate-databases](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/multisite-installation-with-separate-databases),
   [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-different-databases-to-different-blogs-in-one-wordpress-multisite](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/need-different-databases-to-different-blogs-in-one-wordpress-multisite),
   [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/blogs-with-a-different-database-for-each](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/blogs-with-a-different-database-for-each)),
   suggesting that separating databases don’t help much if at all.
 * However I will be using existing databases, some years old, and I wouldn’t be
   comfortable with merging them together while my customers also might not be comfortable
   with having their databases mixed. I still need multisite in order to share codebase,
   themes and be able to query multiple sites.
 * I found this method – a conditional wp-config / and I would just like to know
   if it is the way to go or if there’s some inherent flaw to it.
    [http://whatisgon.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/using-different-databases-with-a-single-wordpress-installation/](http://whatisgon.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/using-different-databases-with-a-single-wordpress-installation/)

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 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/separated-databases/#post-4699157)
 * What are you ACTUALLY trying to do? Make a multisite instance with separate DBs
   per site? That’s really the antithesis of what WP Multisite is supposed to be.
 * You can use the trick in the last link, but that won’t really work with Multisite
   itself. You can do that to have one code-base, but then you’re not Multisite 
   🙂
 *  Thread Starter [luciandavidescu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luciandavidescu/)
 * (@luciandavidescu)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/separated-databases/#post-4699182)
 * “What are you ACTUALLY trying to do? Make a multisite instance with separate 
   DBs per site?”
    Yes. “That’s really the antithesis of what WP Multisite is supposed
   to be.” I understand that. “You can use the trick in the last link, but that 
   won’t really work with Multisite itself. You can do that to have one code-base,
   but then you’re not Multisite :)” won`t really work as in “break it” or as in“
   make it unworthy of its name”? 😀
 *  [ksajdak](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ksajdak/)
 * (@ksajdak)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/separated-databases/#post-4699206)
 * Wouldn’t using separate databases save server space as the WordPress install 
   is not repeated?
 *  Moderator [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * (@ipstenu)
 * 🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/separated-databases/#post-4699238)
 * Please use the BlockQuote tags 🙂 Makes it easier to read. So to extra blank 
   lines between paragraphs.
 * > > “You can use the trick in the last link, but that won’t really work with 
   > > Multisite itself. You can do that to have one code-base, but then you’re 
   > > not Multisite :)”
   > won`t really work as in “break it” or as in “make it unworthy of its name”?
 * Won’t work as in ‘Will not function from a code perspective.’
 * You can do it as a single install of WP, and then you’re not using Multisite.
   Which I suggest you do, actually. _DON’T__ do this with Multisite. It’s neither
   supported nor necessary._

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 * Last reply from: [Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ipstenu/)
 * Last activity: [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/separated-databases/#post-4699238)
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