Title: Moving a SQLServer database to WordPress
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Moving a SQLServer database to WordPress

 *  [okickim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/okickim/)
 * (@okickim)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-a-sqlserver-database-to-wordpress/)
 * Hi. I’m new to WordPress and am used to working in SQLServer. I have an existing
   database that I would like to make accessible through my new WordPress site but
   I can’t find how to transfer an existing SQLServer database into WordPress. I
   can find the WordPress existing structure and I can modify my database extensively
   to come close to the WP data structure, but I will still have additional fields
   in the post table that I want to migrate as well. Ideas on where I should start
   to make this happen? Thanks.

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 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moving-a-sqlserver-database-to-wordpress/#post-3604069)
 * Any additional information that relates to posts should be in the `wp_postmeta`
   table. Any “extra” fields added to the `wp_posts` table won’t be recognised by
   the default WordPress installation so you’d need to write your own functionality
   to use them.

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

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