Since I struggled a bit with this one and couldn’t find a good online source with simple steps, here it is.
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Since I struggled a bit with this one and couldn’t find a good online source with simple steps, here it is.
Run the following code in SSMS to create the linked server. This assumes a PostgreSQL instance on the local machine (hence localhost):
EXEC master.dbo.sp_addlinkedserver @server = N’POSTGRESQL’, @srvproduct=N’Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Driver’, @provider=N’MSDASQL’, @datasrc=’PostgreSQL’, @location=’localhost’, @catalog=’public’
Run the following code in SSMS to create a login mapping for the linked server:
EXEC master.dbo.sp_addlinkedsrvlogin @rmtsrvname=N’POSTGRESQL’, @useself=N’False’, @locallogin=NULL, @rmtuser=”, @rmtpassword=”
Issue statements such as:
SELECT * FROM OpenQuery(POSTGRESQL, ‘select my_column from my_table limit 10’)
I had to use the double-quote