# Connecting to New Database **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Created:** [April 17, 2017, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/connecting-to-new-database/14066 "2017-04-17T16:27:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dcamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@dcamp](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/dcamp)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/connecting-to-new-database/14066/1 "2017-04-17T16:27:20Z")
Do I need to create a database first and then just connect to it from Ignition? I can create a SQL database with all the tables that I need and do the relationship between the table. All I am looking for is to store the tag values into several different tables so that I can generate various type of reports from that information. (Example: Trends, graphs, line charts, chart totals for daily, monthly or let the end user submit sql query’s) Thanks ---
**Author:** ![KathyApplebaum](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kathyapplebaum/32/7261_2.png) [@KathyApplebaum](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/KathyApplebaum)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 5:37pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/connecting-to-new-database/14066/2 "2017-04-17T17:37:23Z")
The [docs](https://docs.inductiveautomation.com:8443/display/DOC79/Configuring+Tag+Historian) on configuring tag history give you all the steps. You don’t need to create the tables, since Ignition will do that for you – just create the database itself and connect Ignition to it. ---
**Author:** ![dcamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e4f/32.png) [@dcamp](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/dcamp)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2017, 8:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/connecting-to-new-database/14066/3 "2017-04-17T20:24:33Z")
Thank you - That gets me started.