Re: SSMS and IBM i -- MIDRANGE-L

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Stephen,
I literally have this tip on my calendar for the first of the month on
stuff to review that may slip your mind. A buzzword commonly associated
with it is "linked servers".

On Wed, Feb 11, 2026 at 10:07 PM Stephen Landess <steve_landess@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Thanks, Richard - that solved my problem !

I had used OPENQUERY with a linked server on a project at a previous
client project (Alcon Labs Belgium) but I had forgotten about using it...

Regards,
Steve Landess
(512) 289-0387

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Richard Schoen wrote;
If querying from SSMS try using OPENQUERY( around your SQL)

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