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Posted - 2005-04-04 : 07:57:21
HARSH writes "I WANT TO CREAT A DATABASE, WHICH HAS A FIELD AS DATABASE NAME. WHERE I WILL GIVE THE DATABASE NAME, WHICH IS LINKED THRU A FRONT END. NOW TRU MY CREATED DATA BASE I WANT TO ACCESS OTHER(DEFINED IN DATABASE NAME FIELD) DATABASE TABLES AND THERE VALUES WHICH I CAN USE TO IMPLEMENT MY LOGIC. HOW TO ACCESS OTHER DATA BASE TABLES IN MY FRONT END AND RESPECTIVE BACK END.
IAM USING SQL SERVER AND VB. HOPE FULLY U R UNDERSTANDING MY QUERY. PLEASE DO RESPOND AND TELL ME WHERE I CAN FIND ITS SOLUTION."

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Posted - 2005-04-04 : 08:02:44
You can access other databases by using [databasename].[objectowner].[object] syntax in your queries, but you would need to use dynamic SQL to substitute a parameter for the database name if you wanted to do this on the fly.

It's probably a better idea to rethink your application design to avoid doing this.

Also, you can turn off the capital letters with the "CAPS LOCK" key.

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