Linked Server: WHERE Clause Not Being Executed

Hi all,



One of our companies is having problems with a query on a linked server.
They have two servers, serverA and serverB. On serverA they have set up a
linked server to serverB.

Query: select * from oas_company where code = 'TEST'

If I look on serverB via Profiler the query is executed without the where
statement.

Query: select * from oas_company where tstamp = 0

Again via profiler I can see that the where statement is now included. The
tstamp field is a numerical field, the code field is a text field (don's ask
me why)

So it looks like if there is a selection on a text field (varchar) the where
statement is not included.

For the above selection this is not a problem as this table only contains
10 - 20 records. However the real problem is on the oas_balance table. It
should only return 3 records, but because it skips the where statement, it
returns 10.000.000 records.

Any idea? I know the default collations are different on both servers, could
that be the cause of the problem? And if so, what could I do to overcome
this problem?



Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.



BoB