# Simple "can Flash do this" question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-can-flash-do-this-question/60527>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [August 10, 2004, 3:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-can-flash-do-this-question/60527 "2004-08-10T15:20:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![xMetal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c6cbf5/32.png) [@xMetal](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/xMetal)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 3:20pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-can-flash-do-this-question/60527/1 "2004-08-10T15:20:47Z")

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I’ve done a bit of reading and am frankly totally unclear if Flash can do the following:

Can a Flash MX file directly connect to a SQL database? I.e., pull data from it without the need for extra scripting (.aspx, PHP, etc) in between?

It would be really nice if I could create flash variables in my program and give them their data directly from the database.

Is this possible? If so, is this built-in, or do I need Flash Remoting or some other component.

Thanks a

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 3:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-can-flash-do-this-question/60527/2 "2004-08-10T15:53:48Z")

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Flash alone can’t do that as far as I know.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 4:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-can-flash-do-this-question/60527/3 "2004-08-10T16:51:28Z")

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No it can’t ☹

Not sure exactly how far Flash Remoting let’s you go with that, I doubt you can do it without any server side scripting.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2004, 5:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/simple-can-flash-do-this-question/60527/4 "2004-08-10T17:59:22Z")

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Flash Remoting still requires the presence of the server side scripting to talk to the database…