>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>I have a situation where in the SQL Select, the JOIN should have a table (MyTable2) from another SQL Server database. Here is an example:
>>>>

>>>>local cJoinSqlServer
>>>>cJoinSqlServer = "SQL2Name.dbo."
>>>>cSqlSelect = "select * from mytable join " + cJoinSqlServer + "MyTable2 on MyTable.pk_field = MyTable2.pk_field"
>>>>

>>>>The above syntax works.
>>>>And then I tried to add the cJoinSqlServer to the ON part as follows:
>>>>

>>>>local cJoinSqlServer
>>>>cJoinSqlServer = "SQL2Name.dbo."
>>>>cSqlSelect = "select * from mytable join " + cJoinSqlServer + "MyTable2 on MyTable.pk_field = " + cJoinSqlServer + "MyTable2.pk_field"
>>>>

>>>>
>>>>The above works too; no error. But do I really need to add this prefix (of the second SQL Server DB) to the ON part?
>>>
>>>KISS and keep it clear IMHO, yours is not, whether you use the full dbname.schema.tablename or not:
>>>
>>>cJoinSqlDatabase = "SQL2Name.dbo."
>>>

>>>TEXT TO cSqlSelect TEXTMERGE NOSHOW PRETEXT 15
>>>	Select t1.fieldName1, ..., t1.fieldNameN, t2.fieldName1, ..., t2.fieldNameN, t3.fieldName1, ..., t3.fieldNameN  
>>>		FROM myTable t1
>>>		Join << m.cJoinSqlDatabase >>.MyTable2 t2 on t1.pk_field = t2.pk_field
>>>              join << m.cJoinSqlDatabase >>.MyTable3 t3 on t2.pk_field = t3.pk_field
>>>ENDTEXT
>>>

>>>PS: Do not forget to rename fields which have the same name (ie: pk_field).
>>
>>I just looked into changing my SQL Select to use aliases and realized why I didn't use them before.
>>My SQL Select has all selected fields with table name aliases. And I would have to change all these aliases with T1 or T2. And I am concerned that I will not change the alias in one place and the code will break.
>
>So are you saying you are instead going to take the longer path and alias them all with their databases as well? Like:
>< m.cJoiningDatabase >..myTable3.myField??? I thought t3.myfield would be easier.

I don't know what is easier. My main goals are 1) not to break anything that works 2) maintain stability.
And I will think again about this case if I would want to change it as you suggest. I just want to take time to think and consider everything.