Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 10/02/65 11:44

Jchick (jchickering@gmail.com) writes:
> I'll take a close look at linked servers at Tom's suggestion. By the
> way, does BOL refer to Microsoft's books online?

Yes.

> And if the database is just a connection via DSN, I suppose that
> datasrc path must be changed. Guess I need to do some serious reading.

A DSN is just a pre-stored connection string, I believe. I never fully
understood or liked DSNs. They just add complexity to the system, in my
opinion.

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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

Books Online for SQL Server 2005 at
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/books.mspx
Books Online for SQL Server 2000 at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/prodinfo/previousversions/books.mspx

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