September 2010
Intermediate to advanced
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With SQL Server 2008, there are no significant changes to the linked servers’ capabilities, and there are virtually no changes in the remote servers area. Of the few changes for linked servers, the following are the most significant:
• Remote servers are being deprecated, and this means system stored procedures such as sp_addserver, sp_remoteoption, sp_helpremotelogin, and sp_addremotelogin will go away.
• System variable @@REMSERVER and server-wide settings such as SET REMOTE_PROC_TRANSACTIONS will also go away.
• The system stored procedure was introduced, such as sp_setnetname to associate a remote or linked server name with the network name of the server that is remote (not local).
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