Title: Why MySQL
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Why MySQL

 *  [jmathe42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jmathe42/)
 * (@jmathe42)
 * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-mysql/)
 * Hello All,
 * I have what might be a simple question with a simple answer, at least I hope.
   I want to set up WordPress on my own server but to do so I have to install MySQL.
   I cannot for the life of my find anything that tells me WHY I need to install
   MySQL. What in WordPress uses MySQL? Call my finicky, but I tend to refrain from
   any install unless I know why I am required to do so.
 * Thank you.

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 *  [whooami](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whooami/)
 * (@whooami)
 * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-mysql/#post-681476)
 * before you decided to write this post, did you investigate what MySQL is?
 * Your posts, comments, tags, categories, everything that IS “structure” is stored
   inside a MySQL database.
 * Thats why.

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