Linked Server Insert-Select Performance

Question

Assume that I have a table on my local which is Local_Table and I have another server and another db and table, which is Remote_Table (table struct

Answer 1

It seems like it's much faster to pull data from a linked server than to push data to a linked server: Which one is more efficient: select from linked server or insert into linked server?

Update: My own, recent experience confirms this. Pull if possible -- it will be much, much faster.

Try this on the other server:

INSERT INTO Local_Table
SELECT * FROM RemoteServer.RemoteDb.Remote_Table