# Multiple Alarm Journals pointing to the same database?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/multiple-alarm-journals-pointing-to-the-same-database/22700>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [February 19, 2019, 10:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/multiple-alarm-journals-pointing-to-the-same-database/22700 "2019-02-19T22:30:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![jmartell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/779978/32.png) [@jmartell](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jmartell)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 10:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/multiple-alarm-journals-pointing-to-the-same-database/22700/1 "2019-02-19T22:30:54Z")

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Is it possible to have two separate gateways log alarms through their own independent alarm journals to the same set of alarm journal tables?

Based on the Ignition generated definitions for alarm\_events and alarm\_event\_data it looks like there shouldn’t be an issue since ID is an identity/auto increment field. The only question I have is the event ID field. This looks like a GUID to me so in theory there **should** be no collisions between values generated by the two gateways. Can anyone confirm this?

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**Author:** ![Trent.Boudreaux](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/trent.boudreaux/32/4138_2.png) [@Trent.Boudreaux](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Trent.Boudreaux)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2019, 10:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/multiple-alarm-journals-pointing-to-the-same-database/22700/2 "2019-02-19T22:40:29Z")

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Can confirm, no issue.