Openquery for serverlink exceedes 8000 characters

Question

I want to create a view as follows:

CREATE view [dbo].[test] as 
SELECT TEST.* 
FROM OPENQUERY([MyServerLink],'LONGSELECTQUERY') as TEST;

The SELECT statement exceeds 8000 characters long which gives me that error:

SQL Error [103] [S0001]: The character string that starts with 'SELECT...' is too long. Maximum length is 8000.

How can I overcome that and create my view?

Answer 1

You can create a temporary table on the linked server and then use the temporary table

Example (MySQL)

EXEC('DROP TEMPORARY TABLE IF EXISTS TEMP_LONGSELECTQUERY') AT MyServerLink
EXEC('
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE TEMP_LONGSELECTQUERY AS
    LONGSELECTQUERY
') AT MyServerLink
SELECT * FROM OPENQUERY(MyServerLink, 'SELECT * FROM TEMP_LONGSELECTQUERY')

But, if the linked server is also a MSSQL Server you can make a select refering to the Server.Database.Schema.Table :

SELECT
    /******/
FROM MyServerLink.master.dbo.xxx x
join  MyServerLink.master.dbo.yyy y /*****/