Recently I received a request from Development Team on how we can get a function value returned from a remote sql server instance.
DECLARE @CTVAL int Select @CTVAL = VERSION_TEST from Openquery([Remote SQL Instance],'DECLARE @var VARCHAR(100) SET @var = ''USE DatabaseName; select CHANGE_TRACKING_CURRENT_VERSION() AS VERSION_TEST''; EXECUTE(@var) ') UPDATE [DatabaseName].[dbo].[TableName] SET ConfigValue= @CTVAL WHERE ConfigKey='Condition Value'