<arshad.tanveer@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I have a Sybase dataserver containing lots of (huge) tables that I
> would like to access from SQL Server (two different applications,
> using two different datasources, now want to talk to each other). MS
> Access has a feature for 'linking' external data. Can I do similar
> stuff in SQL Server?
> Basically, I am trying to avoid having to duplicate the data in both
> the dataservers and worry about keeping them in sync.
>
> Regards,
> Tanveer
>

Yes, look up linked servers in Books-Online. I haven't done this with
Sybase but would be surprised if you can't.





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