OK. If it might be as easy as that, I will have a go and see how well
it works.

pjjH


On Mar 5, 4:31 pm, "Michael Bayer" <mike...@zzzcomputing.com> wrote:
> phrrn...@googlemail.com wrote:
>
> > Sybase (and SQL Server) support cross-database JOINs (Sybase even
> > supports cross-database foreign-key constraints). There are four
> > components to an object identifier:
>
> > 1 = Object name
> > 2 = Schema name
> > 3 = Database name
> > 4 = Server name
>
> > the dataserver, database and schema are assumed for one-part
> > identifiers (e.g. 'foo'), dataserver and database assumed for two-part
> > identifiers (e.g. 'dbo.foo') and, finally, dataserver assumed for
> > three-part identifiers ('production.dbo.foo')
>
> > e.g. SELECT foo.* FROM BANANA.production.dbo.foo
> >        SELECT foo.* FROM production.dbo.foo
> >        SELECT foo.* FROM production..foo -- same as the previous query
> > if the callers default schema is dbo
> >        SELECT foo.* FROM dbo.foo
> >        SELECT foo.* FROM foo
> >        SELECT foo.* FROM ..foo
> > I am not so interested in supporting four-part identifiers in SA but I
> > would like to figure out how to support three-part identifiers as very
> > many of our databases have cross-database references.
>
> > One natural (to me!) way of doing this is to add a 'database' property
> > to the Table and ForeignKeyConstraint schema items and have the Sybase/
> > SQL Server dialects always emit fully-qualified three-part identifiers
> > for table names.
>
> we have an element on Table called "schema".  I had in mind that schema
> should accept dotted names, so SQLA generally doesn't need to get
> involved.  The only change needed is to the IdentifierPreparer, such that
> when quote_schema is called, it separates the name along the dot first so
> that it can quote each token separately.
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