LDAP OpenQuery returns only one column ADsPath

Question

I have added my Domain Controller as a linked server to SQL Server in order to pull some data from active directory and populate my tables with it. After that, I have executed an OpenQuery to get the users list in my domain

SELECT * FROM OpenQuery(ADSI, 'SELECT * FROM ''LDAP://OU=SmallOU, DC=MyDOMAIN,DC=xx,DC=xx'' WHERE objectClass=''User'' ')

I have performed the query against a small OU since performing the query against the whole directory returned errors because of number of rows limitation

Surprisingly, the query returns only one column " ADsPath ", whereas I expected to get sAMAccount , Title , Last Name , .... ,etc.

I want to get all the users data, how can I do that?

Answer 1

The provider will not try to find out which attributes to retrieve, if you use the asterisk with the SQL syntax. Instead of SELECT * you must specify the attributes you want like SELECT sAMAccountName, sn, givenName .