Joining tables from two different databases

2003-09-15 Thread Jeff McKeon
I have an existing database with a lot of information, I need to create a new database to record inventory information that pertains to records in the first database. I'd like to keep these two database's separate. Is it possible to relate a record in one database to a record in another and do

Re: Joining tables from two different databases

2003-09-15 Thread Joseph Bueno
Jeff McKeon wrote: I have an existing database with a lot of information, I need to create a new database to record inventory information that pertains to records in the first database. I'd like to keep these two database's separate. Is it possible to relate a record in one database to a record

Re: Joining tables from two different databases

2003-09-15 Thread Kelley Lingerfelt
I do it everyday, they are on the same machine and installation, but most of my queries span 2 to 4 databases. I can't get it it work on ODBC queries though, but PHP does it fine and so does the mysql command line. But I would be interested to know if there is any problems or reason not to do

Re: Joining tables from two different databases

2003-09-15 Thread Tbird67ForSale
In a message dated 9/15/03 9:50:22 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jeff McKeon wrote: Is it possible to relate a record in one database to a record in another and do queries that pull from both databases? Programmatically yes. Using referential integrity (foreign

RE: Joining tables from two different databases

2003-09-15 Thread Jeff McKeon
That's what I thought. Thanks for the advise!! :o) Jeff -Original Message- From: Joseph Bueno [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 9:26 AM To: Jeff McKeon Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Joining tables from two different databases Jeff McKeon wrote