Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Bible
by Adam Jorgensen, Jorge Segarra, Patrick LeBlanc, Jose Chinchilla, Aaron Nelson
Chapter 15
Executing Distributed Queries
In This Chapter
Understanding a Distributed Query Overview
Developing Distributing Queries
Using Distributed Transactions
Considering Performance
Data is everywhere. Even within the walls of a company, you never find data in the same place. As the amount of data increases within an organization, the need to access that data using distributed methods becomes even more critical. With SQL Server, getting to and querying distributed data is not a problem; SQL Server can access data from a plethora of data sources.
SQL Server provides several methods for accessing data from many different external data sources from a source location. This chapter discusses the methods for accessing and querying distributed data.
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