<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On 17 Jan 2008, at 8:52 PM, Earnie Boyd wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">BTW, Oracle has something similar.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Think of them sub-databases</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">contained within the same database file sets.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>You have different table</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">objects containing different sets of data but described the same way</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">and the table objects have different users.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>nope. they are not sub databases per se, but actually well thought out and properly implemented</DIV><DIV>table prefixing (which is a hack in mysql/drupal).</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></BODY></HTML>