QUESTION POSED ON: 16 February 2004 Are there any known problem with linking SQL Server 7.0 databases and SQL Server 2000
databases?
I have three servers that I would like to link together for reporting
purposes and would like to confirm that the tables will be visible after
the link.
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No issues. You can backup a SQL Server 7.0 database and restore it to
SQL Server 2000. You can link a straight text file + an Excel
spreadsheet + and Oracle database into SQL Server via a linked server
and query them natively using TSQL, so there is no reason you can not
simple link different versions of SQL Server databases together and
query those.
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