Shared Databases

This help topic is applicable to the following TireMaster application:

TireMaster Point of Sale	TireMaster Plus	TireMaster Corporate

With TireMaster Corporate, you have the option of having two sites share a single database.

Example: If you operate a store out of your corporate headquarters, both the store and corporate systems can use the same database. Likewise, if you have two stores at one location to manage two different businesses (one retail and one commercial), you can share a single database and still manage the sites independently.

Sites that share a database sometimes behave differently than two remote sites. A shared database has one password per user, so two stores that share a database would have the same password for a user. Some customer information (such as vehicle history) is also shared, and you would be able to generate some general ledger reports from any site of a shared database. Shared databases in TireMaster Corporatesystem are sometimes called colocated databases.