From: Martijn Tonies
Date: September 19 2005 7:04pm
Subject: Re: Foreign keys across databases?
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Hello Jake,

> I would like to use separate databases to group certain related tables
> to keep things clean, but I would also like to use foreign keys to
> enforce referential integrity between tables in different databases. I
> don't think this is possible. Am I right? And if so, am I reduced to
> using carefully chosen table names to keep things organized? What have
> others done in this situation?

Ehm... According to me, all tables related to eachother or a certain
domain should go in 1 database. That is, each database should be
able to exist by itself.

So, in your case, dump everything into 1 database.

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
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