October 6, 2014 at 7:49 am
Hi
Maybe I'm loosing something here, but what is the real advantage of this code against 'sp_linkedservers' ?
Cheers,
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Paulo
October 6, 2014 at 8:31 am
Paulo,
This code stores the results of a test if the link server is available. A lot of us deal with intermittent network connections.
May 17, 2016 at 5:06 am
Another solution with powershell script by Thomas LaRock:
May 17, 2016 at 6:31 am
Thanks for the script.
May 18, 2016 at 2:53 pm
Nice article.
I recently wrote a Visual Basic 2005 front-end to test arbitrary connection strings (they may be shared using a simple SQL Server database).
Article (unpublished):
http://www.newdalesystems.com/newdale/Articles/Article018/TestConnection.htm
Source:
http://www.newdalesystems.com/newdale/Articles/Article018/TestConnectionSource.zip
Your script would make a nice addition to this app.
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