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 Create stored procedure with 2 odbcs

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MyronCope
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46 Posts

Posted - 2010-11-05 : 10:50:31
For a crystal report I need to create one stored procedure that will pull data from 2 different kinds of odbcs.

1 is a SQL Server 2005 database
1 is a PLB database (which is actually files)

I am able to pull data separately from each odbc/db however I need to figure out how to create One stored proc that will join on fields located in both databases and wondering if anyone knows how to do that?
Both databases are located on separate servers too

thanks
MC

shebert
Yak Posting Veteran

85 Posts

Posted - 2010-11-05 : 10:58:46
You should try to add a linked server linking to the DBT file.
If you get it linked you can then query it as if it was a second database on your server.

IF YOU CAN'T LINK THE FILE

You could import the data from the DBT files into a table on the sql server.

this gets tricky however because you need to import the data into an empty table just before the procedure is run to get the latest data from the DBT file.
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MyronCope
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46 Posts

Posted - 2010-11-05 : 11:22:20
you know what I think the import would be the best thing to do. Import all the data once each night, make a scheduled task on the server to do this.
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shebert
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85 Posts

Posted - 2010-11-05 : 12:04:30
Good Luck
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