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chad
chad

Reputation: 1297

How to connect to two databases in one connection string in C#?

Normally, when I need to connect to a database using C#, I would use the following command routines below:
- define a mysql connection.
- open a mysql connection.
- define a sql statement / query.
- use MySqlCommand to execute the query.

Sample codes: 

string con1 = "server=<db1 IP>;User Id=user;password=password;Persist Security Info=True;database=db1";
string con2 = "server=<db2 IP>;User Id=user;password=password;Persist Security Info=True;database=db2";
MySqlConnection cn1 = new MySqlConnection(con1);
MySqlConnection cn2 = new MySqlConnection(con2);
MySqlCommand com

cn1.Open();
string sql = "some query";
com = new MySqlCommand(sql, cn1);
com.executeNonQuery();  
cn1.Close();

My problem above is on the part where I use the MySqlCommand command because it is where a database connection is indicated so that it will now which database to query to like 

MySqlCommand com = new MySqlCommand(sql, con);

where sql is a sql statement and con is a connection to be used for the query.

How do I query two databases in one sql statement?
Consider the following: (I'm using MySQL)

- I have two databases, db1 and db2.
- db1 is located in City A
- db1 is located in City B
- Both databases have one table (tbl) and they both have the same structure.
- Table structure for tbl:
    +-------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
    | Field       | Type         | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
    +-------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
    | id          | int(9)       | NO   | PRI |         |       |
    | ref_no      | int(9)       | NO   |     |         |       |
    | name        | varchar(10)  | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
    +-------------+--------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
- I want to run a query on db1.tbl against db2.tbl
- Example query: "select ref_no from db1.tbl where ref_no not in (select ref_no from db2.tbl)"

Or is there another way for this kind of problem?...

Upvotes: 11

Views: 14692

Answers (2)

nl-x
nl-x

Reputation: 11832

What you are looking for is the Federated Storage Enginge

On one of the server (or even both), you can create a placeholder table that is transparently routed by the MySQL server to the other MySQL server.

It allows you to run your query on just one server and your server will contact the other server for the data it needs.

Upvotes: 0

mjb
mjb

Reputation: 7969

string con = "server=localhost;user=root;pwd=1234;";

using (MySqlConnection cn1 = new MySqlConnection(con))
{
    MySqlCommand cmd = new MySqlCommand();
    cmd.Connection = cn1;
    cn1.Open();

    cmd.CommandText = sql;
    MySqlDataAdapter da = new MySqlDataAdapter();
    ....
}

sql statement:

select a.ref_no from db1.tbl a where a.ref_no not in (select b.ref_no from db2.tbl b)

You can query multiple database at a time.

Update

I think the only option is create 2 connections at the same time and pass the data between the 2 server through C#.

Upvotes: 9

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