Question

I have two machines , each one contains SQL Server + different instance/database + different IP/port ( as you know )

I want to load data from machine A to Machine B by executing a T-SQL procedure on B. I use Windows Authentication as authentication method.

I read about sp_addlinkedserver but I couldn’t execute it successfully .

Edit:

I hope to see an exeample of using sp_addlinkedserver with different servers that use windows authentication ads auth method

Answer 1

I found the solution 🙂 , it was related to something called Security Account Delegation and mapping a SQL server login to the linked serve

for more information read the first answer from here.

TSQL code:

-- drop old things 
-- EXEC sp_droplinkedsrvlogin myLinkedServer, null

-- drop old linked server if it is there 
-- EXEC sp_dropserver 'myLinkedServer'

EXEC sp_addlinkedserver @server='myLinkedServer',
                        @srvproduct=N'',
                        @provider='SQLNCLI',
                        @datasrc='10.10.11.13', -- server ip try 10.16.11.13\Your_Instance_Name
                @provstr='User ID=testuser;password=Aa123456' -- you can add Integrated Security=SSPI;


-- debugging to check if the linked server is created or not 
select * from sys.servers where name = 'myLinkedServer';

-- map a SQL server login to the linked server
EXEC sp_addlinkedsrvlogin 'myLinkedServer', 'false', NULL, 'testuser', 'Aa123456'



-- display some data 
select * from myLinkedServer.[dev_master].[dbo].[attendanceReport]

It was tested using SQL Server 2005 + 2008 , and it works successfully.