Skip to main content
cancel
Showing results for 
Search instead for 
Did you mean: 

Vote for your favorite vizzies from the Power BI Dataviz World Championship submissions. Vote now!

Reply
kvitnitskiy
Frequent Visitor

One sql query to multiple servers

Hello all. 

 If there is a way to get data from few  MS SQL servers with only one SQL Query,  and append results in to one  single table at the end? 
like this 

kvitnitskiy_0-1697206151670.png

 

3 REPLIES 3
DinisSilveira5
New Member

Unfortunatelly this is the only way I know to do this natively on SQL. I think there is no other way but I'm not sure.

Another thing you can do is having a PowerBI with a table connected to each server you want to query and append everything in PowerQuery. 

DinisSilveira5
New Member

You can use Linked Serves. There are avaiable in SSMS under de Server Objects - Linked Servers.

DinisSilveira5_0-1697212390108.png

You need to create Linked Server for each server that you want to query. Then you can append the tables from the different Linked Servers more and less like this:

select * from [OtherServerName].[OtherDB].[dbo].[OtherTable]
union all
select * from [DifferentServerName].[DifferentDB].[dbo].[DifferentTable]

If you want more information you can check this link https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1144051/selecting-data-from-two-different-servers-in-sql-server

Thanks for the answer,  hovewer I don't have access to create linked server, only read access, unfortunatelly. 

 

Helpful resources

Announcements
Sticker Challenge 2026 Carousel

Join our Community Sticker Challenge 2026

If you love stickers, then you will definitely want to check out our Community Sticker Challenge!

January Power BI Update Carousel

Power BI Monthly Update - January 2026

Check out the January 2026 Power BI update to learn about new features.

FabCon Atlanta 2026 carousel

FabCon Atlanta 2026

Join us at FabCon Atlanta, March 16-20, for the ultimate Fabric, Power BI, AI and SQL community-led event. Save $200 with code FABCOMM.