sp_linkedservers
To see the linked servers defined within a SQL Server instance, you simply use sp_linkedservers:
EXEC sp_linkedservers Go
The sp_linkedservers execution provides the list of all linked servers on this SQL Server:
Since the introduction of SQL Server 2005, you can also get the same information via system views set up for this purpose. In this case, you can query the system catalog view sys.servers directly to get your information on linked servers:
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