Passing table variable as input parameter to stored proc

I understand you cannot pass a table variable as input parameter to a stored
proc.
But what is the alternative in my case?
Current DB standards limit access of linked servers to the execution of
stored procs and functions, no cross server joins.
But I need to get data from the remote server that matches keys on imy local
server. The remote table is too large to bring over to the local server in
its entirety. In order to limit my result set from the remote server, I must
pass it the
keys of the records I want.
My issue is how to pass the keys.
For example, say I have customers and orders databases are on different
servers. From orders I want to get customer information for 200 customers.
Somehow I need to pass 200 custids to customers, execute the query there and
return 200 sets of customer data.
How do I call a proc on orders and pass 200 custids as a parameter?You can always query on a table of some other database on some other
server by specifying server name, db name, owner name and table name.
Something like this:
SELECT * FROM <Server Name>.<Database Name>.<Owner>.<Table>
If you have any other concern which is not covered here, please write.
I will surely try to help you.
Thanks|||Dave
Table-Valued UDFs --
USE Northwind
GO
IF object_id('dbo.get_cust_orders') IS NOT NULL
DROP FUNCTION dbo.cust_orders
GO
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.get_cust_orders
(
@.custid char(5)
)
RETURNS TABLE
AS
RETURN SELECT
*
FROM
Orders
WHERE
CustomerID = @.custid
GO
SELECT OrderID, OrderDate
FROM get_cust_orders('VINET') AS C
"Dave" <Dave@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I understand you cannot pass a table variable as input parameter to a
>stored
> proc.
> But what is the alternative in my case?
> Current DB standards limit access of linked servers to the execution of
> stored procs and functions, no cross server joins.
> But I need to get data from the remote server that matches keys on imy
> local
> server. The remote table is too large to bring over to the local server
> in
> its entirety. In order to limit my result set from the remote server, I
> must
> pass it the
> keys of the records I want.
> My issue is how to pass the keys.
> For example, say I have customers and orders databases are on different
> servers. From orders I want to get customer information for 200
> customers.
> Somehow I need to pass 200 custids to customers, execute the query there
> and
> return 200 sets of customer data.
> How do I call a proc on orders and pass 200 custids as a parameter?
>