Don't laugh.....ok, you can laugh! LOL I've always wondered about this, but have never asked. When you have a database for a forum and you import that data over to a second forum and it's database, can you delete that first database or is it still linked to that second forum? Sorry, I feel like I should know this, but I don't.
Re: Really newbie question......... the databases know nothing about eachother in this typical scenario. So yes, you an delete that other database. You've saved the data and put it into a different one. By that, I'm assuming the names, usernames, and passwords are different from databaseold to databasenew. Course, you can reuse the username/password to help streamline, but usually minimum is to change the database name. Hope that helped. It's not a dumb question. Some ppl that are really good, will use a single database, but then copy the data and assign a different prefix (i.e, different tables) such that both sets can be used in teh same mysql database.
