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using a table in 2 seperate databases with a symbolic link


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I initially began a project with my tables in database A, but when the amount of tables needed grew to 20+ I was told to create a new database.  This sucked because I am inner joining on tables within database A, of course moving my tables to a new database broke several queries.

 

Rather than creating objects to extract the data out of database A and work with my existing code our network administrator came up with an interesting solution.  Since mysql stores tables as files within the databases folder on the file system, why not make a symbolic link to the tables.  This is working for me in a development environment, but I am worried about potential problems that could arise from this.

 

Has anyone on here tried this approach before? Any ideas on the possible downside of this?

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