Title: Really basic, like duhhhhh
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Really basic, like duhhhhh

 *  [mrwolfy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrwolfy/)
 * (@mrwolfy)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/really-basic-like-duhhhhh/)
 * I installed WordPress on my local machine, using MAMP, everything works fine.
 * What I am curious about is, what is the database? I understand that it stores
   my posts. But is it a file? Can I read that file? Where does it reside?
 * Thanks,
 * Wolf

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/really-basic-like-duhhhhh/#post-1100189)
 * [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database)

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