Subject Re: [Firebird-general] What's missing in Firebird
Author Martijn Tonies
> > > > - Cross-Database-Queries
> >
> > Extend current SQL implementation to support database.tablename
> > notation as was used in QLI. Firebird can do it, its just not surfaced
> > in SQL. Sponsor?
>
> As a long-time ingres A/P & DBA I'm happy to try and answer any questions
> about it.
>
> I don't know the correct name for it but Ingres also has user.tablename
which
> defaults to ingres.tablename but if joe has created his own copy then when
> joe connects he sees his own table and would have to specify
ingres.tablename
> to get to the same one as everyone else

"Schemas".

Which is different to "cross-databases".

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
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