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Using databases

The Multiuser Server provides extensive database functionality that allows your movies to store a wide variety of information. When you use databases, the information you store on the server will be available each time your movies connect to the server. You can use databases to do the following:

| Store information about individual users, such as their e-mail address or the type of computer they are using.
| Keep a record of a user's high score in a particular game.
| Keep track of the status of a game or other multiuser application.
| Store environment information for an application, such as map data for an adventure game.

For an example of the Lingo used to work with databases, see the example Director movies in the Director 8.5/Learning/Lingo_examples/Multiuser_examples folder.