how to write this query accordingly

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how to write this query accordingly

Mad-Dog

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April 10, 2019 at 2:36 pm

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Hi,
i need this query to run against 20 instances from main server that have linked server to those 20 instances.i want to change the [@server] to the right instance via cursor and make the SELECT statement to work.
how can i write the query accordingly?

THX
declare @server varchar(50)
set @server = 'servername\instnacename'
SELECT N'<TD>' + ISNULL( + '<p class="datarows">' + (SELECT CONVERT(NVARCHAR(MAX),column_name) from [@server].db_name.dbo.table_name),'<p class="datarowserror">Not Avail') + N'</p></TD>'

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Grant Fritchey SSC Guru Points: 398690 More actions · Answer 1

Personally, I wouldn't do this through T-SQL. I'd use Powershell. Here's an example.

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 734449 More actions · Answer 2

You could query sys.sysservers in master to get the linked servers, then with a cursor you can loop through them.

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003863 More actions · Answer 3

Grant Fritchey wrote:

Personally, I wouldn't do this through T-SQL. I'd use Powershell. Here's an example.

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