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Posted - 2001-10-01 : 10:19:09
J mc writes "A potential client has information already stored in a DB and they are asking me can I develop an ASP web application for some specific add-on functionality.
I was going to set up a SQL Server 2000 database for the backend of my app but the client has now mentioned that I will need to access information stored on their database e.g. User info.
I will need to access their info to, for instance, assign a course (course info will be stored in my DB) to a user.

I guess my question is what would be the best way of combining the information. I may need to do join operations so I'll need the info in my local DB, in some shape or form!

Should I try and set up some kind of DB synchronisation routine with information from their tables being imported into tables in my DB?
Could I try and use the remote DB from a stored procedure i.e. select the remote info into a local temporary table before utilising it. I know there is a USE DATABASE command - does this work for DBs hosted on different boxes?

Any help would be greatly appreciated..."
   

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