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:

Image sp_linkedservers—This returns a list of linked servers defined on the local server.

Image 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 ...

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