Here is the question which I received the other day from a user who was trying to add a linked server pointing its own server as he wanted to use OpenQuery. Let us read his question in details.
SQL SERVER – FIX: Msg 7356, Level 16 – The OLE DB provider “ASEOLEDB” for linked server “SYBASESERVER” supplied inconsistent metadata for a column
In SQL Server, we can create linked server to many other RDBMS. The providers to connect would generally publish by destination RBMS. In this client scenario, they were dealing with linked server to Sybase. Let us learn about the error The OLE DB provider “ASEOLEDB” for linked server “SYBASESERVER” supplied inconsistent metadata for a column.
SQL SERVER – FIX – Linked Server Error 7416 – Access to the remote server is denied because no login-mapping exists
Last time I wrote a blog about linked server creation issue. As I said, these are one of the most common issues. But as soon as such blogs get released, I get a number of requests around them immediately. Here is the blog post which is discussing about the linked server error.
SQL SERVER – FIX – Linked Server Error 7399 Invalid authorization specification
I have personally seen when people use Linked Server there are a number of issues from authentication to performance. These issues are part of working with something that has so many variations and permutations of actually going wrong. Many a times I suggest people to keep away from Linked Servers as much as possible. But it cannot happen all the times and there are code blocks in their application that relies on this as a requirement.
SQL SERVER – How to Create Linked Server to PostgreSQL?
The databases world is expanding and I have been fortunate enough to learn and share my experiences around databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL apart from working with SQL Server. I always try to expand my horizon and try various database products. In case you don’t know, I have course on Pluralsight about PostgreSQL