# How to save user\_metadata in Custom Database? **URL:** \ **Category:** Get Help\ **Tags:** mysql, user\_metadata, custom, custom-database\ **Created:** [December 29, 2017, 7:14am UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/how-to-save-user-metadata-in-custom-database/9084 "2017-12-29T07:14:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vladimir.plotean](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/User_font_awesome.svg/768px-User_font_awesome.svg.png) [@vladimir.plotean](https://community.auth0.com/u/vladimir.plotean)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2017, 7:14am UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/how-to-save-user-metadata-in-custom-database/9084/1 "2017-12-29T07:14:30Z")
How can i save additional fields to a custom mysql database and update them using the management api? ---
**Author:** ![jmangelo](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/auth0/user_avatar/community.auth0.com/jmangelo/32/7923_2.png) [@jmangelo](https://community.auth0.com/u/jmangelo)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2017, 6:36pm UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/how-to-save-user-metadata-in-custom-database/9084/2 "2017-12-29T18:36:12Z")
The custom database is meant to provide you with the ability to maintain the user credentials in your own existing store; in addition, you can then decide to surface some additional user profile information from the existing store into the Auth0 user profile. However, it is not meant to a provide a two-way communication channel for dynamic information like user metadata so there is no support to reflect changes to user metadata triggered from the Management API back to the underlying user store. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/auth0/original/3X/b/5/b560f266932fcce5d57f09a6595bd50518cae3f3.jpeg) [@system](https://community.auth0.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2018, 5:57am UTC](https://community.auth0.com/t/how-to-save-user-metadata-in-custom-database/9084/3 "2018-03-02T05:57:58Z")