Hi,

"Jim Starkey" <jas@...> wrote in message
news:3.0.5.32.20010508141001.00afaa40@firebird...

> At 06:29 PM 5/7/01 -0700, David Berg wrote:
> >Interesting idea. Personally we have similar issues, and I'm leaning
> >towards separate databases (if the data is truely separate). One reason

is

> >that it's possible to extract data in insidious ways, for example:
> >
>
> The killer problem with multiple databases is that you can't roll
> up reports on all users for users authorized to see that sort
> of stuff.

Disagree a little on that one... You could create a central db to do some
warehousing and reporting...

It's quite easy to do with incremental replication...

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