Drupal 7.x

Seriously, I can't figure it out for the sake of my life. Someone please enlighten me?

Hello Group,
I am newbi to Drupal , I would like to expose a database table into Drupal , views seems to be a viable option to do so but I am not quite sure how, can anyone kindly give me some pointers?

MyTable has three fields (fname, lname,phone) . MyTable exists in a database called myCRMDB which is outside the Drupal database. Finally, my objective is to use a view that will connect to the external database (myCRMDB) and perform a "select * from MyTable" and then view the result in a grid format on a Drupal page.

Thanks in advance.

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