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Hi everybody,

Thanks for quick respond to my previous question about Standalone and modules.
Appreciate this. Our ISP is not going to update MySQL to version 5 and we are kind of tide to them so I am trying use Drupal 6 and CiviCRM 1.8.
My question now is:
Do I need to have separate MySQL databases for Drupal and for CiviCRM if not than which
should I use?
Drupal and CiviCRM is asking for database.
Can those programs corrupt each other data?

++++ addition ++++++++ test
I just installed CiviCRM 2.1 Standalone on our website just to get some practice.
It looks like install is not allowing me to go further, there is this info:
"MySQL version 5.0 is required, you only have 4.1."
Is there any way to finish install and use it at 90% as Donald Lobo replied on
September 08, 2008, 11:07:08 am to question "Is mySQL 5 recommended or required?"

"I suspect 90% of civicrm will work with 4.1. there are some advanced features (multi-lingual comes to mind) that uses mysql5 features like triggers"

Please advice, thanks in advance.

Thank you for clear answer, this will help.
Appreciate this.