>Correlating data from one database to data from another is harder.
You might want to export some data from one data base and import it
into the other periodically so that you can do joins.
Seem to me I recall coming across tools that claimed to make several
databases appear as one. I can't recall what they were called.
Perhaps someone else can. Maybe Hibernate can do that.

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Patricia Shanahan - 29 Mar 2008 14:33 GMT
>> Correlating data from one database to data from another is harder.
>
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> databases appear as one. I can't recall what they were called.
> Perhaps someone else can. Maybe Hibernate can do that.
Is "federated database" what you mean? See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federated_database_system
Patricia
Logan Shaw - 30 Mar 2008 04:38 GMT
>> Correlating data from one database to data from another is harder.
>
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> databases appear as one. I can't recall what they were called.
> Perhaps someone else can. Maybe Hibernate can do that.
Well, if you don't mind being database-specific, and if your database
is already Oracle, then Oracle supports distributed queries. You
can go into one database and create a link to another, then do a
join (or whatever) across databases.
- Logan