LINQ to SQL for tables across databases. Or View?
- by BritishDeveloper
I have a Message table and a User table. Both are in separate databases. There is a userID in the Message table that is used to join to the User table to find things like userName.
How can I create this in LINQ to SQL? I can't seem to do a cross database join.
Should I create a View in the database and use that instead? Will that work? What will happen to CRUD against it? E.g. if I delete a message - surely it won't delete the user? I'd imagine it would throw an error.
What to do? I can't move the tables into the same database!