One select statement that queries multiple databases

[eluser]tinawina[/eluser]
Right - that's where I landed too. I was trying to think through how separation could be helpful. Eg., for data maintenance moving forward. I am sharing some of the burden of maintaining with staff that are non-programmers and was trying to think about how I might be able to more quickly get people into maintenance via phpMyAdmin rather than me writing all types of little maintenance tools. Seeing 15 tables as opposed to, say, 50, seemed like a good first step for handing off some of this. But really - the data relationships should be driving my dbase design -- not me trying to get out of a little work!