Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 02/06/07 23:07

mkarbarz@gmail.com (mkarbarz@gmail.com) writes:
> I started playing around with the linked server and I got it to the
> point where I can see the tables from UniData, but when I try to query
> it using LINKEDSERVERNAME...TABLE I get 'Invalid schema or catalog
> specified for provider 'MSDASQL'." error. When I try to specify
> schema using LINKEDSERVERNAME.SCHEMA.TABLE I get 'Invalid object name
> LINKEDSERVERNAME.SCHEMA.TABLE'; do you know why these errors occur
> and how to get around them?

To refer to an object on a remote server, you must use four-part
notation: server.catalog.schema.table. So that's why
INKEDSERVERNAME.SCHEMA.TABLE does not work.

Unfortunately, I have no idea what will work, since I've never heard of
Unidata before.


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