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Connect To Foreign Tables

Connect To Foreign Tables

2007-10-06       - By Werner Van Belle

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Hello,

On Friday 05 October 2007 01:11:35 James Card wrote:
> The application I'm working on uses MySQL 5.0.41 and we also need to
> retrieve some data from a SQL-Server database in another department.
> SQL-Server has a feature (that I haven't tested) that allows it to make an
> ODBC connection to a foreign database and treat its tables as if they were
> local.
>
> Is there any way to accomplish something similar in MySQL? I'd love to be
> able to create a view that joins data from my local tables with that from
> SQL_Server.

Did you get any response ? I'm quite interested in this question too. Recently
I had to join around 1 G of local data with the genome databases in Germany
and found that I either had to upload 1G of data to a temporary table or
download 54G of data.  Neither was particularly inspiring, so it would have
been nice if I could just use various databases through the same local
server.

Are there any solutions for this kind of problem ?

Werner,-

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Dr. Werner Van Belle
http://werner.sigtrans.org/