If you do not want to go the free table route, you can create a remote view of the table in the second DBC. This prevents multiple DBC from being "visibly open" at the same time.

>Hello Foxperts,
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>Is is possible to use a table in more than one database?
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>I'm thinking of, for instance, an employee table that would be part of a payroll app, and the preventive maintenance app wants to get the name of employee 0021 to print on a report of work completed.....
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>TIA,