How to extract data from DB into fields? How would I go about extracting the data from a DB into fields? I would like to display information on a page using Views, but the information isn't on the website, instead it is in a separate database. Is this possible?

I get that in order to use Views I need to have fields, but how do I extract this?
If you just want the content, you can use Feeds as Patrick said but this will replicate the content of the other database as entities in your Drupal site.

If you really want views connecting to a remote database, this question looks like a duplicate of:

https://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/3275/how-do-i-display-an-external-database-data

This will help you make Drupal "aware" of the external db:

http://drupal.org/node/18429