>Hi all.
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>I am creating a small asp.net project to help learn VS. I am going to use the user / password log in method to authenticate users. VS created the membership database and that part is working fine. I just was wondering if "best practices" would be to create a new database for the app or just use the membership database?
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>Thanks.

I always use the same database. That way you can have different Membership instances per application. All the Membership stuff is prefixed with aspnet_ so that helps. I wish they would just come in their own Schema.