Hi. I'm trying to copy from one table to another across 2 different
servers with the following:

select *
into #Tmp_Hdr
from parsaleshdr
where businessday = '9/20/07'

select *
into [pdsqla01\pdsqla01].impact_exec.dbo.parsaleshdr
from #Tmp_Hdr

This gives me an error:
The object name 'pdsqla01\pdsqla01.impact_exec.dbo.' contains more
than the maximum number of prefixes. The maximum is 2.

Not really sure how to get around it. I was trying to use OpenQuery,
but that's really for selecting from, not into. How can I get around
this?

Thanks,
Jennifer

Jennifer (J.Evans.1970 [at] gmail.com) writes:
> Hi. I'm trying to copy from one table to another across 2 different
> servers with the following:
>
> select *
> into #Tmp_Hdr
> from parsaleshdr
> where businessday = '9/20/07'
>
> select *
> into [pdsqla01\pdsqla01].impact_exec.dbo.parsaleshdr
> from #Tmp_Hdr
>
> This gives me an error:
> The object name 'pdsqla01\pdsqla01.impact_exec.dbo.' contains more
> than the maximum number of prefixes. The maximum is 2.
>
> Not really sure how to get around it. I was trying to use OpenQuery,
> but that's really for selecting from, not into. How can I get around
> this?

You need to create the table on the remote server in advance.


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