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How can I query data from a linked server, and pass it parameters to filter by?

I have a really big query that needs to be run on multiple databases, and the results appended to a temp table and returned. The basic syntax looks something like this: INSERT INTO #tmpTable (Id, ...
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32-bit ODBC driver on 64-bit SQL Server [closed]

I am unable to use an ODBC 64-bit driver with SSMS 2012 running on a SQL Server 2012 64-bit instance. However, I believe that the 32-bit driver works. My question is can I use SSMS 2005 32-bit to ...
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How can I install a provider for linked server?

I have a provider for a linked server called PervasiveOLEDB.11.0 installed on a sql server 2005 machine. It always me to have a connection to a pervasive sql database. I would like to use this same ...
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Is there a way to setup a user to run SPs, but not access the underlying data tables?

We have two database instances on two separate server boxes that are linked. The website user needs to be able to run stored procedures on DatabaseA which query DatabaseB tables, however it should not ...
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Query intermittently fails with “The multi-part identifier could not be bound”

I've got Schrodinger's query here; you can run it once successfully, then 5 times in a row, and it works fine. Change anything in the query, even whitespace, run it again, and it might stop working ...
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Find old linked servers on a restored copy of master/msdb db

We moved our dbs to a new server and the drives on the old server are still available, but the SQL service is offline and cannot be started. I want to find the linked servers that were registered on ...
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how to copy data from SQL Server table to excel Spreadsheet thru Linked Servers

I try to copy data from a table in SQL Server 2005 into a excel spreadsheet. Since that sheet is linked to some external charts, so I have to overwrite the existing data with the updated data from SQL ...
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Update excel sheets from SQL Server 2005 linked servers

I use SQL Server linked servers to connect to Excel 2003 multiple tabs workbook. After connected, I have not problem to use select statement like: select * FROM OPENQUERY(TEST, 'select * from [fist ...
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Is there a syntax for accessing table names containing slashes?

I have a linked server registered in my SQL Server 2005 which accesses our SAP database (test system). It uses an ODBC driver provided by SAP, and is connected using the Microsoft OLEDB For ODBC ...