# Database start up

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/database-start-up/4798>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [July 10, 2012, 2:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/database-start-up/4798 "2012-07-10T14:50:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![titus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@titus](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/titus)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 2:50pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/database-start-up/4798/1 "2012-07-10T14:50:47Z")

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How do i go about starting up this database thing so that i can use the easy chart to trend values from the tags i have

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**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 3:19pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/database-start-up/4798/2 "2012-07-10T15:19:36Z")

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Did you install a database yet?

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**Author:** ![titus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@titus](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/titus)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 4:06pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/database-start-up/4798/3 "2012-07-10T16:06:53Z")

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That’s kinda the question i was asking was how do i go about installing this thing

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**Author:** ![greg.simpson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/greg.simpson/32/3135_2.png) [@greg.simpson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/greg.simpson)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/database-start-up/4798/4 "2012-07-10T16:23:57Z")

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Here is a page that has some different databases that you can use

[inductiveautomation.com/support/ … ldatabases](http://inductiveautomation.com/support/resources/sqldatabases)

Here is how you configure your connection to a database

[inductiveautomation.com/support/ … 4145AF3EF1](http://inductiveautomation.com/support/quickstart/db;jsessionid=38D1654E5007F8C5EA02114145AF3EF1)

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**Author:** ![titus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/48db29/32.png) [@titus](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/titus)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2012, 5:19pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/database-start-up/4798/5 "2012-07-10T17:19:50Z")

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Thank you got it working now