Question

I’m working to push the contents of one table source (from a linked server) to an another table i.e. dbo.dest

insert into [dbo].[dest]
  select * 
  from OPENQUERY(LINKEDSERVER,'select * from source')

Source table has 50 columns.

Is there any way I can create the table (dbo.dest) dynamically for the columns for source?

Any input would be helpful.

Thanks !!!!

Answer 1

Try this, might work:

 select * into [dbo].[dest]
 from OPENQUERY(LINKEDSERVER,'select * from source')

NB [dbo].[dest] can’t exist when you run this query.