Apr 23, 2024 · Failed Attempts: Normally, a workaround for >8000 character strings is to DECLARE a variable, cast to nvarchar(max), and/or use string concatenation - but none of these things appear to be allowed within an OPENQUERY …

Oct 3, 2017 · You can bypass the 8000 character limit of OPENQUERY by utilizing EXECUTE AT, as follows: DECLARE @myStatement VARCHAR(MAX) SET @myStatement = 'SELECT * FROM TABLE WHERE CHARACTERS.... ' -- Imagine that's longer than 8000 characters EXECUTE (@myStatement) AT LinkedServerName

Nov 23, 2022 · 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?

May 4, 2011 · Unlike OPENQUERY EXEC() can accept a query as a variable and that variable can be declared as a MAX datatype. Something like this: IF OBJECT_ID(N'tempdb..#temp1') > 0

Nov 16, 2011 · MSDN says this of OPENQUERY's arguments: 'query' Is the query string executed in the linked server. The maximum length of the string is 8 KB. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188427.aspx. To bypass this, you could probably use. execute (@query) at oracle_linked_server

Jul 28, 2021 · You could try to avoid openquery and use something like SSIS or Azure Data Factory or some other ETL tool which doesn't have the 8K character query limit. Alternatively if you want to keep using openquery but if you are getting over 8000 characters I would suspect you either have a long list of measures or a long list of dimension members (or both)

Sep 3, 2024 · Executes the specified pass-through query on the specified linked server. This server is an OLE DB data source. OPENQUERY can be referenced in the FROM clause of a query as if it were a table name. OPENQUERY can also be referenced as the target table of an INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE statement.

Jun 14, 2012 · Probably your string is longer than 8000 characters. But not sure if that will work anyway. Why not have an identifier for each of the union all clauses and assign those literals locally - better than assigning them on the remote server and transferring the data.

Jul 9, 2013 · And when you try to get the data from OLAP database using Linked server and OPENQUERY function the query in the nvarchar (max) variable is reduced to nvarchar (8000). i.e., it can contain...

Sep 12, 2016 · Error "Maximum length is 8000" occurs when querying an OpenEdge database via a Microsoft SQL Server Linked Server. SQL query being executed is longer than 8K. Steps to Reproduce