# \[Help\] Working with External databases

**URL:** <https://forum.wixstudio.com/t/help-working-with-external-databases/20739>\
**Category:** Ask the community\
**Tags:** question, code\
**Created:** [September 8, 2019, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.wixstudio.com/t/help-working-with-external-databases/20739 "2019-09-08T16:25:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![jonesross](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wix/user_avatar/forum.wixstudio.com/jonesross/32/14409_2.png) [@jonesross](https://forum.wixstudio.com/u/jonesross)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2019, 4:25pm UTC](https://forum.wixstudio.com/t/help-working-with-external-databases/20739/1 "2019-09-08T16:25:57Z")

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Hey Team 👋

Can somebody point me in the right direction for learning how to setup external databases? I’m confident with setting up databases on Wix (internal datasets etc.), but not sure how to do the ‘external dataset’ option - I’ve read the Wix instructions but I’m just not grasping it.

[https://support.wix.com/…/corvid-working-with-external-data…](https://support.wix.com/en/article/corvid-working-with-external-database-collections?fbclid=IwAR3vhEp4MVQ43GJMxr47s0DXkUNLT9xkwcGa-MlBHaYJx_qxVhTH9Yk7wFs)

I’d essentially like one of my Wix sites to talk to a few others via data sharing across datasets, but really can’t work out the whole ‘Adapter’ piece outlined in the support documentation above.

Any support welcomed

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**Author:** ![mikhail-spirin-wix](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wix/user_avatar/forum.wixstudio.com/mikhail-spirin-wix/32/838_2.png) [@mikhail-spirin-wix](https://forum.wixstudio.com/u/mikhail-spirin-wix)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2019, 12:12pm UTC](https://forum.wixstudio.com/t/help-working-with-external-databases/20739/2 "2019-09-10T12:12:59Z")

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Hey

What is your reason to connect external database? Just to share data among several wix sites?

To connect to external database you first need to have this external database, which is stored somewhere

If your need is just to share data around several wix sites, you can get data with this  
[https://www.wix.com/corvid/reference/wix-http-functions.html](https://www.wix.com/corvid/reference/wix-http-functions.html)

Set one site with main database, create http function to get data, set up wix-fetch functions on other sites to get data from first site and show it somewhere

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**Author:** ![jonesross](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/wix/user_avatar/forum.wixstudio.com/jonesross/32/14409_2.png) [@jonesross](https://forum.wixstudio.com/u/jonesross)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2020, 4:58pm UTC](https://forum.wixstudio.com/t/help-working-with-external-databases/20739/3 "2020-05-02T16:58:10Z")

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Sorry for the late reply @mikhail-spirin-wix - that’s really useful - thank you very much.

I’m looking to connect my database to Airtable using an API. Would I need to setup an ‘external database’ for this, or can I connect the standard Wix collection to this?