Thanks! I'll give it a go and see what happens. :-)

On Sunday, January 5, 2014 1:02:52 PM UTC, Niphlod wrote:
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> On Sunday, January 5, 2014 1:57:24 PM UTC+1, pythonic...@gmail.com wrote:
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>> Thanks. That allows me to narrow it down to two questions:
>>
>> 1) I'm just going to want to use various select queries against 
>> views/tables (including joins) in the "legacy" database, nothing else. This 
>> database will never need to be altered by web2py. Will I be able to do that?
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> sure, but don't expect being able to use something like db.table(5) as a 
> shortcut 'cause the missing PK. selecting with the "usual" 
> db(db.table.field == 'something').select() will work out of the box, unless 
> your fields have some really strange names, but those can be circumvented.
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>> 2) If I want to do want to write anything, I guess web2py will let me 
>> have a separate native database which I can use for that. You can have 
>> multiple databases right? A mix for native and legacy? Neither will need to 
>> interact directly with the other and the logical separation would be well 
>> suited to this application.
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> yep, you can have as much dbs as you like.
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> db0 = DAL(....)
> db1 = DAL(....)
> db2 = DAL(....)
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> etc etc etc
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