Question

I want to copy data from one server to another and not sure how to do that (I already have the right tables, created using Script Table As > Create To > New Query).

Maybe:

SELECT * FROM OPENDATASOURCE('SQLNCLI','Data Source=192.168.10.1\dbName;')

Or:

exec sp_addlinkedserver @server = '192.168.10.1'
SELECT * FROM [192.168.10.1].[dbo].[myTableName]

Is IP address (and of-course username & password..) enough ?

Answer 1

Addition new linkedserver & mapping between a login
EXEC sp_addlinkedserver
  @server = 'your_LServer',
  @srvproduct= '',
  @provider = 'SQLNCLI',
  @datasrc= '192.168.10.1\'

EXEC sp_addlinkedsrvlogin
  @rmtsrvname = 'your_LServer',
  @useself = 'FALSE',
  @locallogin = 'locallogin',
  @rmtuser = 'remotelogin', 
  @rmtpassword = 'remotepassword'

Query againsts on linked server

SELECT * FROM your_LServer.dbo.myTableName