When using linked servers, I believe, all processing occurs on the calling server. For processing to occur on the linked server you would use OpenQuery.

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Hi. I'm in the process of a massive consolidation of 122 SQL servers down to two different clusters. I wrote a handy dandy little script that added all of them as linked servers, so I could query ...

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