December 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1872 pages
153h 31m
English
book
Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed
by Ray Rankins, Paul T. Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
Content preview from Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
Start your free trial
Obtaining General Information About Linked Servers
You can use both SQL Server Management Studio and the system stored procedures to gather information about linked servers and the referenced data sources. Following are some of the most-often-used system stored procedures:
sp_linkedservers—This returns a list of linked servers defined on the local server.
sp_catalogs—This displays a list of catalogs and descriptions for a specified linked server.
sp_indexes—This shows index information for a specified remote table.
sp_primarykeys—This returns ...