On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:21:21 -0800, Garris, Nicole wrote: > My experience (Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQL Server) is that every > DBMS is different in this regard. Microsoft's SQL Server works like > this: > > A SQL Server instance ("server") can have many databases. > > A database can have many schemas, schema simply being a grouping for > objects in a database. In a SQL Server 2005 database, there can be two > tables named "Product" if one is in the schema Sales and the other is in > the schema Manufacture. The two tables are Sales.Product and > Manufacture.Product. > > A fully qualified SQL Server object name is > server.database.schema.object.
In your two examples: SELECT * FROM server.sales.schema.product; SELECT * FROM server.product.schema.product; I'm a bit tired, so maybe I'm not seeing it, but what goes in the schema place holder? -Thufir -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]