Question

I am trying to get data from different sever, and the sever name might change. So I set the server name as a parameter. The idea of my sql store procedure is something like this

CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[GetData]         @ServerName AS BEGIN     SELECT * FROM @ServerName.ClientDataBase.dbo.Client END 

Does anyone know how to achieve this?

The database version is sql server 2005

Answer 1

Use dynamic SQL, however evil this may be:

exec('select * from ' + @ServerName + '.ClientDatabase.dbo.Client')