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Old 02-28-2008, 07:12 PM
Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)
 
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Default Re: Querying tables from different databases


"Henri" <lemartin@nospam.inv> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I am quite new to ms-sql and I have a problem : I want to create an SQL
> request which would copy serveral records from a table in a given database
> to another table (with exactly the same structure) in another database
> (theses two tables and databases already exist).
>
> Could you please tell me how to do this ? I dont know how to access two
> different databases in a single SQL request.
>


use northwind
go
select * from pubs.dbo.authors
go


Basically you need to use the db name and the object owner.



> Thank you for you help.
>
>
>



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