Thanks much for your answer Greg, but in my case I am using the view designer,
it takes care of that, any other thoughts ?
>I haven't tried it myself but I might try being explicit when naming the tables with their databases such as:
>
>SELECT tbl2.descr, tbl1.*;
> FROM db1.dbo.tbl1 join db2.dbo.tbl2;
> on db1.dbo.tbl1.id = db2.dbo.tbl2.id
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