title: How to wirte a variable to database and retrieve it with IBM BPM?
body: <p>I am working with IBM BPM Designer and want to create a simple process that is connected to my database. </p>
  
  <p>All my variables up to now were just connected to the process so I did not need to access them from the database. Now here is what I want to do as a test project.</p>
  
  <p>Start process and have a user enter a name in the coach, when he submits the name, the system service checks the database if there is already an entry of that variable with the same name. If there isn't it saves that name in in the database. If there is it checks it it has another attribute called "dateOfBirth"
  and displays it. </p>
  
  <p>How can I accomplish this?</p>