# Tag Historian. I would like to change the name of my tag history in the MySQL DB Table from Ignition Designer

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** database, ignition80\
**Created:** [December 9, 2020, 8:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tag-historian-i-would-like-to-change-the-name-of-my-tag-history-in-the-mysql-db-table-from-ignition-designer/41356 "2020-12-09T20:46:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![alvarolosu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@alvarolosu](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/alvarolosu)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 8:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tag-historian-i-would-like-to-change-the-name-of-my-tag-history-in-the-mysql-db-table-from-ignition-designer/41356/1 "2020-12-09T20:46:23Z")

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Hello everyone,

I wanted to know if someone could help me with a doubt about Tag Historian. The thing is that I want, for example my “Pressure” tag that I want to save in my MySQL DB table appears with the name “Pressure” instead of a random “tagid” that in this case calls to my variable with the number “11”. What Ignitions settings should I change in order to put the name “Pressure” instead of number “11” in MySQLDB table register? I attach a print screen about the issue.

 ![Tag Historian](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/7/a/7af018df09a1f8f04f291ce33dd5697256b49552.png)

Thank you,  
Regards,  
Alvaro

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2020, 9:13pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tag-historian-i-would-like-to-change-the-name-of-my-tag-history-in-the-mysql-db-table-from-ignition-designer/41356/2 "2020-12-09T21:13:59Z")

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You can’t. But Ignition is putting what you need in the metadata table that ties “11” and “Pressure” together. Use a join to make the substitution when you run your queries.

Or just use Ignition’s built-in historian scripting functions to do these queries for you.

Or look at the SQL Bridge module for traditional storage into ordinary tables.

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**Author:** ![alvarolosu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c89c15/32.png) [@alvarolosu](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/alvarolosu)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2020, 9:32am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tag-historian-i-would-like-to-change-the-name-of-my-tag-history-in-the-mysql-db-table-from-ignition-designer/41356/3 "2020-12-10T09:32:15Z")

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Ok, thank you very much. I will do a join instead. Thank you.