AFAIK, Interbase cannot do this.
The only way I know of would be to create one transaction and two
connections for IBO, so you can do multi-database-transactions.
Masterlinks and Keylinks should work well with IB_Datasets spanning
several connections, so you could replace your left join perfectly with
a MD-Relation of two Datasets. Reporting is not an issue with this, and
I do not think you really need to display data in a single grid with
some fantasy :-)

Cu,

Nick Josipovic

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University of Mannheim
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arpe Software - Programacion [mailto:prog@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 10:13 AM
> To: IBObjects@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [IBO] Query using to different databases (GDB)
>
> Helo, we are converting a multi-enterprise application from db7 to IB.

The

> application has common table has enterprise specific ones. In db7

could

> make
> queries like this:
> SELECT A.*,B.*
> FROM 'c:\app\data\common\table1.dbf' A LEFT JOIN
> 'c:\app\data\enterprise001\table2.dbf' B on (A.ID = B.ID)
>
> How could it be done in IB?
> Note, using several GDBs is a must (needed to use data from other
> applications).
>
> Thanks, Dario
>
>
>