This sounds like a good idea. I guess I just don't know enough about
databases yet to know how to do this linking. Mostly I just know
about how to get DBI to interact with MySQL.
I should mention that I'd also like to be able to make some rules in
the "real" database temporarily disappear while
Thanks to all, and apologies to all.
I should have waited another day to flesh this out before sending, but
I was trying to take advantage of living on the west coast of the USA
to send this out last night and come to work this morning to find my
inbox teeming with lots of interesting ideas. Dum
Overview: I'm trying to create the situation in the subject line:
from the outside, the database handle thinks it's just one database,
but inside it's really two databases containing tables with the same
schema but not necessarily the same data.
Specifics: Where I work we have a web site with c