[support] Dynamic remote database access

[Fred Jones]

Not clear what the question is. does this help: http://drupal.org/node/18429

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Ms. Nancy Wichmann
<nan_wich at bellsouth.net> wrote:
> I know that the "standard" way to access another database is to include it
> in $db_url in the settigs.php file. This has the undesireable effect that
> the remote database must be available all the time. In my case, we only need
> to access the remote DB a few times a week via a cron job, where much better
> error handling is available. I haven't yet found a way (I'm still searching
> DO) to do this. Does anyone have any good ideas? This is Drupal 6 - don't
> bother suggesting an upgrade. Replication is probably not an option because
> we shouldn't have access to, nor need, everything in the remote DB.
>
> Nancy
>
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