> > There is no way to do this in SQL. But maybe you can do it using QLI.
> > Take a look at this message (and the rest of the thread):
> >
> > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/message/60332
> >
> > Or maybe you're looking for replication, something that there should
> > be plenty of messages discussing.
>
> Actually it's not what I'm looking for, I want a way to SELECT data
> from another database.
>
> I'm thinking to have a database with the "important" data and another
> containing the zip-codes wich in Brazil is very large (105MB). I'd
> like to store in separated databases to ease the backup/restore and
> due to the frequent updates in the zipcodes database.
>
> So, in my application I'll be logged to the main database and when I
> enter a zipcode I need to get the data (street, city, etc..) from the
> zipcode database, actually I want to do a select with join using
> tables from main database and zipcode database, understood?
>
> Is there a way?

you can't do a join because that's asking one server a question.
But you can do a client side lookup on a second database - that's basic.
Alan