Yes you can. It depends if you have a user name and password and access to access abc.com's MySql server, remember you do this: <? $db_name = "newsdatabase"; $db_uname= "username"; $db_upass= "password"; $db_host = "abc.com"; $conn = mysql_connect($db_host, $db_uname, $db_upass); mysql_select_db($db_name); ?> see? try http://freesql.org (it is a free mysql database provider!;)) "Jeff Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 010301c14508$864c8060$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:010301c14508$864c8060$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Is it possible to have a script at xyz.com retrieve data from a mySQL database on abc.com? Jeff -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]