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I have an existing SQL 2005 database and I alsoI have a third party database (hosted CRM product) that I am trying to access to pull some information from. &nbsp;The third party database is available to me via a webservice. &nbsp;Can I add that as a linked server in SQL? &nbsp;If so, how?<br />
I seem to know just enough to be dangerous with this stuff ;)
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I have an existing SQL 2005 database and I alsoI have a third party database (hosted CRM product) that I am trying to access to pull some information from.  The third party database is available to me via a webservice.  Can I add that as a linked server in SQL?  If so, how?
I seem to know just enough to be dangerous with this stuff ;)

SQL 2005 Linked Server a Web service?

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is a suite of relational database management system (RDBMS) products providing multi-user database access functionality.Component services include integration (SSIS), reporting (SSRS), analysis (SSAS), data quality, master data, T-SQL and performance tuning. It includes support for managing XML data and allows a database server to be exposed over web services using Tabular Data Stream (TDS) packets encapsulated within SOAP (protocol) requests.