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Asked: 2026-05-11T20:51:20+00:00

I don’t usually work with linked servers, and so I’m not sure what I’m

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I don’t usually work with linked servers, and so I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong here.

A query like this will work to a linked foxpro server from sql 2000:

EXEC('Select * from openquery(linkedServer, ''select * from linkedTable'')')

However, from researching on the internet, something like this should also work:

Select * from linkedserver...linkedtable

but I receive this error:

Server: Msg 7313, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Invalid schema or catalog specified for provider 'MSDASQL'.
OLE DB error trace [Non-interface error:  Invalid schema or catalog specified for the provider.].

I realize it’s supposed to be ServerAlias.Category.Schema.TableName, but if I run sp_ tables _ex on the linked server, for the category for all tables I just get the network path to where the data files are, and the schema is null.

Is this server setup incorrectly? Or is what I’m trying to do not possible?

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  1. Editorial Team

    From MSDN:

    Always use fully qualified names when
    working with objects on linked
    servers. There is no support for
    implicit resolution to the dbo owner
    name for tables in linked servers

    You cannot rely on the implicit schema name resolution of the ‘..’ notation for linked servers. For a FoxPro ‘server’ you’re going to have to use the database and schema as they map to their FoxPro counterparts in the driver you use (I think they map to folder and file name, but I have’t use a ISAM file driver in more than 10 years now).

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