I heard a dba state that linked servers are not reliable and can fail anytime for no reason. Is this correct?

great article!!! however you didn't clarify when is the right time to buy goog :hehe:

Seems sqlservercentral forums need database tuning. I was trying...

I faced a similar issue but it was because the dba's had turned off dbo schema access in 2008 for developers.

I have another question from the article. Every PK in all three tables is called "id" which I have never used. I would name them UserId, groupId etc. Also naming...

freaked out a couple of coworkers :D... told them right before they officially were abt to document/put a call to the dba..

going to prod server ssms window now..

test test test before posting questions....