Posted on: 6/23/2011 11:26:23 AM | Views : 407

Hi!
I'm using MSSQL 2005 Express, win7 64bit.
 
linked Server error: 
 

TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express
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"The linked server has been updated but failed a connection test. Do you want to edit the linked server properties?"
 
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
 
An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Express.ConnectionInfo)
 
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Cannot initialize the data source object of OLE DB provider "MSDASQL" for linked server "GAMESERVER".
OLE DB provider "MSDASQL" for linked server "GAMESERVER" returned message "[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][DBNETLIB]ConnectionOpen (Invalid Instance()).&qu ...

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