Title: Database Best Practices
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Database Best Practices

 *  [WordPressIsAwesome](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordpressisawesome/)
 * (@wordpressisawesome)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-best-practices/)
 * Hi,
 * I am creating a plugin that needs to use a lot of new custom tables in the Database.
   I noticed all the plugins that I’ve downloaded have added tables directly to 
   the WordPress database.
 * Is it best practices to add all plugin tables to this base WordPress database?
   If these tables are going to be frequently modified through the backend, does
   it make sense to create a new Database separate from the default WordPress one
   and create the tables there? Just wondering what the best practices are, and 
   what the pros and cons there are for each approach.
 * Thanks a lot!
    Will

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 *  Thread Starter [WordPressIsAwesome](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wordpressisawesome/)
 * (@wordpressisawesome)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-best-practices/#post-3101810)
 * Some of the data that I’m accessing should be private, so I’m wondering if there
   are any security ramifications of simply building the tables within the WordPress
   database?
 * Since you do not need to connect and deconnect every time if you build the tables
   directly into WordPress DB, is it safer to build another database and store the
   tables there? And simply open and close the connection as needed?

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