I do it by creating temp. remote views on all the tables in the remote database.
>Todd:
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>That works OK for just the views.
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>What do I do to let the user select a named connection, the tables in that database, select a table, and then see the fields in that table?
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>I am setting up two list boxes; One contains the fields in a local source table and the other should contain the fields from the SQL Server database table that is the destination table.
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>The users have decided since my first posting that they need the flexibility to see all the tables in the SQL Server database, rather than ones I define with remote views.
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>Thanks!
>Tom.
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