SQL Server linked server performance

Question

I am using SQL Server 2008 Enterprise. And I am using Linked Server technologies to link another SQL Server 2008 Enterprise instance from another server. I write TSQL to manipul

Answer 1

I've found that if you're doing outer joins (left/right) the performance degrades fast. It's sometimes faster to select the data from the remote server into a temp table and index it rather than joining across the network. Mostly, the best strategy is to write the query the way it makes sense and then only tune it if performance is a real problem.