Question

I want to call a sproc on server B from server A in TSQL without linking the servers. Is it possible to use something like a connection string to execute this sproc? The return will be a single nvarchar value.

Regards.

Answer 1

To avoid “linked servers”, you’d normally use OPENDATASOURCE

After comment:

EXEC OPENDATASOURCE('SQLNCLI', 'Data Source=London\Payroll;Integrated Security=SSPI').remoteDB.remoteSchema.remoteProc @param1, @param2,...

Simple 4 part naming convention. The whole OPENDATASOURCE simply replaces the linked server name…

Note: you may have issues with “adhoc access“