>>Hi
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>>I am querying data from a linked server in sql management studio and the query is very slow. (in fact I cancelled it after about 30 minutes.)
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>>But if I log onto the linked server and run the same query in management studio I get a result set (5 records) in about 3 seconds.
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>>Any idea why or where I should start to look ?
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>>I'm query data from several servers and do it usually by being logged into one server and accessing all the others as linked servers.
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>>Thanks
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>>Nick
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>How exactly you're executing the code? Are you using OpenQuery?

No I'm not . Should I ?