Understanding instances

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    brsastre · Member ·

    Hi, this is an extract from the book “Professional WordPress, Design and Development”. I’m trying to understand some terminology related to MySQL,Wordpress, and instances.

    If you want to have multiple WordPress sites on the same server, you can share a single MySQL database instance for all of them provided you configure WordPress to distinguish the MySQL database table names within the MySQL database.

    questions:

    1. Is it a MySQL database instance, the same as a MySQL instance?
    2. Why would i use a singe database instance for running multiple WordPress sites, if I can use multiple databases, with only one MySQL instance?

    That’s all!

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    micawbr · Member ·

    Hi,
    Unfortunately, this isn’t the right WordPress forum to answer those questions. This forum is for blogs hosted here on WordPress.com where that tech stuff is not accessible to users. What you want is the WordPress.org forum: https://wordpress.org/support/

    If you don’t have a username at that forum, you’ll need to register before posting. For more information about the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org, visit: http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

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