Heres the stored proc I created to do generic dynamic openquery selects...

CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[LinkedServerQuery]

(

@LinkedServerName varchar(50),

@sql varchar(max)

)

AS

BEGIN

DECLARE @LinkedSQL varchar(max)

SET @LinkedSQL = 'SELECT * FROM OPENQUERY(' + @LinkedServerName + ','''+...

What happens if you add to the end...

where products_id = a.products_id

Nice one. That approach worked well against my linked server. I'll create a function to do the same but will probably escape out those single quotes with another character. They...

If that works, thats even simpler than my solution. I'm sure I tried similar before I went down the extended stored proc route but failed miserably. Will give it a...

A late reply but I have done this recently. The problem is that you can only use static strings in openquery, not one that has been dynamically built up.

I got...