servers and performance

Hi,
I have a client that he needs to configure a linked server
on a server cluster with SQL Server 2000, windows 2000,
two instances: one default and one named instance.
Linked Server should be configured in the named instance
calling a database from default instance
There is any problem about performance using linked server
in that condition?
Thank's for information
I was searching in Microsoft pages and I didn't find
information over that topicsThere are no performance issues specific to that configuration. There is
the general consideration that remote queries use more resources and
encounter greater latency than local queries, so if a high percentage of
requests involve both servers then you could experience poor performance.
There is no specific guidance on when you would see a problem, but absent
real data I always use 80/20 as a rule of thumb. That is, 80% of the
requests should be completely satisfied locally and no more than 20% should
require access to the linked server. I use 90/10 when I need to make a more
conservative estimate.
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Hal Berenson, SQL Server MVP
True Mountain Group LLC
"ruth G" <caubd@.isa.com.co> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I have a client that he needs to configure a linked server
> on a server cluster with SQL Server 2000, windows 2000,
> two instances: one default and one named instance.
> Linked Server should be configured in the named instance
> calling a database from default instance
> There is any problem about performance using linked server
> in that condition?
> Thank's for information
> I was searching in Microsoft pages and I didn't find
> information over that topicssql