Hi Jeff,

I think a lot of this depends on where the database is and how secure you want the connections to be...

For example, if your external db is on the same server as your DNN install, then you can add your external DB as an alternative connection string and use it normally. If your DB is external, you can still do that, but, you need to expose access to your DB a little bit more than many people are comfortable doing. Depending on the nature of the data, this may or may not be OK.

If the DB is on an external server, and you can't/don't want to connect to it directly, you can expose the data using a web service on that server. Here, you would replace your grid view on that site with a series of web services. Then, you'd create a DNN module that interacts with those services.

Hope this helps,

Mike

Instead of creating a new module, etc., we ended up going with XMod Pro.  It works quite well and have configured a number of our pages to use look-ups, stored procedures, etc. from external databases and the results displayed on the page.

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