Inserting between two servers

Question

HI
I am running below command on my local server to insert rows from a remote server. 
INSERT INTO tblEvents(...)
SELECT ...
FROM [ODBC;Driver=SQL Server;SERVER=<ip address>;DATABASE=MyDB;UID=MyUser;PWD=MyPassword].tblEvents AS a
WHERE a.[ID] = 11111
However I am getting below error;
Invalid object name '[ODBC;Driver=SQL Server;SERVER=<ip address>;DATABASE=MyDB;UID=MyUSer;PWD=MyPassword].tblEvents'.
What am I missing please?
Thanks
Regards

Answer 1

I do not see the database specified in the connection string
SELECT *
FROM OPENROWSET('SQLNCLI',
'Server=111.222.333.3;Database=DATABASE_NAME;Uid=LOGIN_NAME;Pwd=PASSWORD;',
'select * from tbl') ;
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Hi
I am now using 
SELECT *
FROM OPENROWSET('SQLNCLI', 'Server=<ip address>;Database=MyDB;user_id=sa;password=MyPassword','SELECT * FROM MyDB.dbo.tblEvents')
and I am getting
OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI10" for linked server "(null)" returned message "Invalid authorization specification".
OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI10" for linked server "(null)" returned message "Invalid connection string attribute".
Msg 7399, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
The OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI10" for linked server "(null)" reported an error. Authentication failed.
Msg 7303, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
Cannot initialize the data source object of OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI10" for linked server "(null)".
Separately I have this connection string which connects to remote server/db fine;
Data Source=<ip address>;Initial Catalog=MyDB;Persist Security Info=True;User ID=sa;Password=MyPassword
Very confusing.
Regards