Once again, thank you Sergey. That is exactly what I was looking for.

>You can create linked server and use OPENQUERY() to send a query to a remote server.
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I'm writing a little routine to copy a subset of a production database to my development server for testing. So far I got:
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>>INSERT INTO ...
>>SELECT ... FROM OPENDATASOURCE(...).database.dbo.table
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>>and this is fine when I need all of the records. However, when I'm pulling just a subset, I need to create some JOINs to limit the results (filtering the child tables to the subset of the parent table). If I:
>>
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>>INSERT INTO ...
>>SELECT ... FROM OPENDATASOURCE(...).database.dbo.childtable
>>JOIN OPENDATASOURCE(...).database.dbo.parenttable
>>ON ...
>>WHERE [filtering parent table]
>>
>>Then I assume the filtering of the JOIN is happening on the local server instead of the remote server, which would be bad.
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>>Is there a T-SQL way to submit an entire SELECT statement to another server and have it return the result set? Do I need to create a view on the remote server and connect to that?
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>>Any help, suggestions or alternative ideas would be appreciated.
>>
>>TIA