Add recursive link crawling and query execution through link chains#2108
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Add recursive link crawling and query execution through link chains#2108mverschu wants to merge 2 commits intofortra:masterfrom
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- Add crawl_links command to recursively discover all linked servers
- Add query_link command to execute queries through link paths or server instances
- Add xp_cmdshell_link command to execute commands through link paths or server instances
- Support automatic path discovery and execution on all discovered paths
- Support targeting specific servers by instance name
- Use OPENQUERY instead of EXEC AT for better compatibility (no RPC required)
- Improve output formatting for xp_cmdshell results (filter NULLs, clean display)
- Match PowerUpSQL's Get-SQLServerLinkCrawl functionality
- Add crawl_links command to recursively discover all linked servers - Add query_link command to execute queries through link paths or server instances - Add xp_cmdshell_link command to execute commands through link paths or server instances - Support automatic path discovery and execution on all discovered paths - Support targeting specific servers by instance name - Use OPENQUERY instead of EXEC AT for better compatibility (no RPC required) - Improve output formatting for xp_cmdshell results (filter NULLs, clean display) - Match PowerUpSQL's Get-SQLServerLinkCrawl functionality
…lback - Add enable_xp_cmdshell_link command to enable xp_cmdshell through link paths - Add disable_xp_cmdshell_link command to disable xp_cmdshell through link paths - Support automatic OPENQUERY fallback when RPC is not enabled on linked servers - Fix error detection to properly check lastError and replies for RPC errors - Use EXEC AT for sp_configure commands, fallback to OPENQUERY when RPC unavailable - Support targeting specific servers by instance name
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