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Multple SQL Databases with same Table Names -- Crystal Reports

I am using Crystal Reports to access data in a SQL Express 2008 instance, but my question is more a general SQL quesiton than a Crystal Reports question.

I am presently using "AccessBooks RealTime" to export the data from about 10 QuickBooks files into SQL. "AccessBooks RealTime" does not support importing multiple QuickBooks files into one database, since List ID's are not unique across QuickBooks files.

Presently, I have a database for each QuickBooks file, and the sync is working fine between the QB files, and their respective databases.

What I want to be able to do, is show certain pieces of information from each database, alongside one another. For example, there is an "Accounts" table, which has two fields, "AccountType", and "AccountBalance". I would like to be able to pull this data from databases A, B, and C. Of course, the table name, and the field name is identical on all three databases.

I somehow need to "flag" which database each piece of data is coming from. In the above example, I might want to display Cash Balance by Company. Then I would want to filter where AccountType == Cash, and then show the balance for Company A, Company B, and Company C, all together.

Hopefully that makes sense. Any ideas on how to achieve something like that? Is there any way I could create a view that aggregates all of my various databases into one, with a new field or prefix that specifies what database it is coming from?

I have also looked at qODBC to export QB data to SQL, which appears to be more flexibile, but I would have to write the update statements to migrate the data to SQL manually. Of course, then I could probably add my own prefixes to each table as it is updated, but that seems like a lot of work.
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I knew there would be an easy solution. "select as" fits the bill perfectly. Thanks!