You can establish a link to the remote SQL Server using this code:
Sp_addlinkedserverSyntax :SP_addlinkedserver[@Server]='server'[,[Srvproduct=]'product_name'[,[@provider=]'provider_name'][,[@datascr=]'data_source'][,[location=]'location'[,[@provstr=]'Provider_string'[,[@catalog=]'catalog']server: Name of the linked server to createproduct_name: Product name of te OLE DB data sourceProvider_name: The unique,friendly name for the OLE DB providercorresponding to this data sourcedata_source: Name of data sourcelocation: location of databaseprovider_string: The OLE DB provider stringcatalog: The Catalog name (In SQL Server is database name)example :Connecting to remote SQL Server
If you are connecting to a server that is running SQL Server 7.0, the only arguments that must be provided are the ‘provider_name’ and ‘server’ arguments. Other arguments are used automatically.
EXEC sp_addlinkedserver 'Accountingserver','SQL server'
‘Accountingserver’ is the server name and ‘SQL server’ is the provider name.
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