Add lookup table?

I need to populate a common Flash SWF in my posts with a different FLV depending on which post the SWF is installed. I’m about to head down the road of using a separate MySQL database, but just wanted to ask if this sort of thing is already built in somewhere.

Using an object that contains the SWF, and which connects to a separate database, I think it might work like this: The object is dropped into each post. The object also contains a PHP snippet(s) that gets the WordPress post title, finds that title in the other database, then passses the URL to the matching FLV back to the Flash SWF.

Is there a way to do that ‘in-house’?

Thanks,

TW