thank you for the reply Lowell

no it does not work also.

Lowell (12/1/2014)

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could it be related to implied/deferred schema? SQL lets you be lazy with not explicitly identifying columns, but it...

yes it works,

for example these query s works

delete from openquery(SQLTEST, 'select * from oc_product')

or this

select * from openquery(SQLTEST, 'select * from oc_product')

are working just fine