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I use an users to login SQLServer(not sa)
so I can’t exec the “exec sp_configure ‘Ad Hoc Distributed Queries’,1”
if always set the ‘Ad Hoc Distributed Queries’ on?
is there any risk or disadvantage ?
Assuming you are going from SQL to SQL, IMO you should try and use sp_addlinkedserver instead – this way your DBA’s have better visibility and control into cross server data access.
The only reason I could think why you would want to use OPENROWSET was if you wanted to directly access a non-SQL data store – but you might consider other technologies at application level which might be preferable, e.g. DTS / SSIS, or a custom application with 2 connection strings.
That said, it seems there is a bug with the Ad Hoc Queries option.