My problem is thus:

I am currnetly access a DB with DBI. Iwould like to migrate to Class::DBI. However one of my SELECT queries must query another database.

The problem is I do not have direct access to the DB. Some sample code should explain the problem:

use DBI;

my $dbh = DBI->connect('dbi:mysql:database=db1' , 'user', 
                       'password');
my $db1_data = $dbh->selectall_hashref(qq/select * from table 
                                       where field = 'value'/);
my $db2_data = $dbh->selectall_hashref(qq/select * from db2.table 
                                       where field = 'value');

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How do I achieve this with Class::DBI? My reading of the Class::DBI docs does not show if this is possible.

I agree that the correct solution would be to connect to db2 as I did to db1. However this isn't possible for "security reasons". Personally I disagree with this but it is not an argument that I will win. :(

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