I am facing same problem On Sep 21, 5:56 pm, Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried that technique but it did not work. It appears that you can't > havemultiple"useDBConfig"s in a single query. This seems reasonable > since you also can't do a raw select usingmultipleconnections which > is what the useDBConfigs give you (I think). > > Richard > > On Sep 20, 5:56 pm, Adam Royle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What you need to do is set $useDBConfig for each model. > > > var $useDBConfig = 'A'; > > > then in your DATABASE_CONFIG you would use > > > var $A = array( > > 'driver' => 'mysql', > > 'persistent' => false, > > 'host' => 'localhost', > > 'login' => 'username', > > 'password' => 'password', > > 'database' => 'A', > > 'prefix' => '', > > ); > > > Adam > > > On Sep 21, 4:24 am, Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I've got an existing MySql instance that contains 4 databases (lets > > > call them A, B, C & D). Each has tables as you would expect. For > > > this post lets say tables are named like table1, table2 etc.. in each > > >database. My single user/password has access to all databases in the > > > instance. > > > > My problem is I need to query across several databases. This is the > > > way I would do this with a raw query: > > > > select * from A.table1 as t1, B.table2 as t2 > > > where t1.id = t2.id > > > > I haven't been able to do this through any combination of model > > > attributes. Naturally I thought that > > > > var $useTable = "A.table1" > > > > in The table1 model and > > > > var $useTable ="B.table2" > > > > in the table2 model would work - alas no it does not. > > > > I've also tried using the prefix attribute and that doesn't do it > > > either. > > > > Is there some way to do this in Cake or do I need to forget the models > > > and just do raw sql queries in the controllers? It seems to me this > > > is just an arbitrary restriction in the model code. > > > > Richard
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