Denis Gobo ran into a problem with a linked server query he ran:
This past week I needed to run some queries on production to verify there were indexes added on a table. There were several scripts that needed to be run and the last one was the addition of the indexes. The query given to me was something like the following
SELECT * FROM LinkedServerName.DatabaseName.sys.indexes WHERE object_id =(OBJECT_ID('TableName'))So I ran the query..nothing. Aha maybe they are still running the scripts before that, setting up replication, snapshotting the table etc etc. I will check again in a bit I thought.
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