Title: Database Problems
Last modified: November 18, 2019

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# Database Problems

 *  [dianneg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dianneg/)
 * (@dianneg)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-problems-32/)
 * I’m trying to add an interface where a member on my site can go and put in the
   name of the food they ate and the database will come back with its number of 
   calories. (It’s more complicated than this with other queries but that’s basically
   it.) Can this be done with the SQL database that’s already part of WordPress 
   with maybe a query or ?? Or will I need a separate database such as Access or??
 * I’ve searched everywhere to find the answer to this question but I can’t. I think
   I’m just missing a simple point about how WP works but I’m not sure.
 * Thanks for your help,
    Dianne
    -  This topic was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/).
      Reason: Moved to Fixing WordPress, this is not a Developing with WordPress
      topic

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 *  [JNashHawkins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jnashhawkins/)
 * (@jnashhawkins)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-problems-32/#post-12144054)
 * Couldn’t they just look on the label?
 *  Thread Starter [dianneg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dianneg/)
 * (@dianneg)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-problems-32/#post-12144144)
 * Yes, they could. But I was trying to simplify the problem, so I’ll try to reword
   my question. I know that I’m not making a lot of sense. Part of the problem is
   that I don’t know how to ask the right question. I want to be able to have an
   interface where the user can input a question and the database will return the
   answer. I don’t know if the database giving the answer would be SQL because this
   is a WordPress site or if it needs to be another database (such as Access or ??)
   which provides the answer.
 * I also don’t know how to get the information for the answers into the WordPress
   database. If anybody can figure out what I’m talking about or at least explain
   to me where I need to look to find information, I would be very appreciative.
   I have been using WordPress for a long time but I think my brain has shorted 
   on this problem.

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 * [query](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/query/)

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 * Last reply from: [dianneg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dianneg/)
 * Last activity: [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-problems-32/#post-12144144)
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