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Matthijs · #26 10-24-2005, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by tscbh

Hi westpointer,

I am wondering if you can put each forum on its own database. I have 3 sites and I am planning to add more in the future. This would be easier to backup and maintain the all the sites.

As long as they are on the same server, it shouldn't be a problem. You have to change the search-and-replace stuff, though.
The syntax for MySQL is "SELECT foo FROM database.table" so if you change the TABLE_PREFIX to include the database-name and give the db-user access to all databases, it should work without problems...

Edit: you might even put the shared tables in a separate database from the rest of the tables. There are no problems with JOINs and such across databases, I have done that many times...

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