Question

I want to select some data form another database in another server.

What I know is add a Linked Server, and run the T-SQL.

Is this way is a good choice, or is there any other way to run SQL in other database servers?

thanks.

Answer 1

Adding a linked server is fine.

You will then probably use the 4 part naming convention

select * from [server].[database].[Owner or Schema].[tablename]

Or you could look at OPENROWSET (Transact-SQL)

Includes all connection information that is required to access remote
data from an OLE DB data source. This method is an alternative to
accessing tables in a linked server and is a one-time, ad hoc method
of connecting and accessing remote data by using OLE DB. For more
frequent references to OLE DB data sources, use linked servers
instead.