Question

I want to port data from one server’s database to another server’s database. The databases are both on a different mssql 2005 server. Replication is probably not an option since the destination database is generated from scratch on a [time interval] basis.

Preferebly I would do something like

insert * from db1/table1 into db2/table2 where rule1 = true 

It’s obvious that connection credentials would go in somehwere in this script.

Answer 1

I think what you want to do is create a linked server as per this webarchive snapshot of msdn article from 2015 or this article from learn.microsoft.com. You would then select using a 4 part object name eg:

Select * From ServerName.DbName.SchemaName.TableName