Hi everybody,

there are several SQL-Server 2000 databases within a company located
on different servers in different domains. On every database you can
find the same table X.

I want to merge these tables X (UNION query) and print the result with
a Crystal Report.

Unfortunately I only have little knowledge on security, domains,
distributed applications.

Thanks for help.

Have you checked Linked Servers?

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Jack Vamvas
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"Josef Meierhofer" <jmeierhofer@gmx.com> wrote in message
news:hga623l6c1v4fbghk7rbmp7omuaplp6tn0@4ax.com...
> Hi everybody,
>
> there are several SQL-Server 2000 databases within a company located
> on different servers in different domains. On every database you can
> find the same table X.
>
> I want to merge these tables X (UNION query) and print the result with
> a Crystal Report.
>
> Unfortunately I only have little knowledge on security, domains,
> distributed applications.
>
> Thanks for help.
>
>

Josef Meierhofer (jmeierhofer@gmx.com) writes:
> there are several SQL-Server 2000 databases within a company located
> on different servers in different domains. On every database you can
> find the same table X.
>
> I want to merge these tables X (UNION query) and print the result with
> a Crystal Report.
>
> Unfortunately I only have little knowledge on security, domains,
> distributed applications.

The query as such is not tricky:

SELECT ....
FROM SERVER1.db.dbo.tbl
WHERE ....
UNION ALL
SELECT ....
FROM SERVER2.db.dbo.tbl
WHERE ....
UNION ALL
...

The problem may be with setting up the linked servers. You use
sp_addlinkedserver and sp_addlinkedsrvlogin. Supposedly there is a DBA
around with whom you can discuss how to do this.


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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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