Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 12/08/05 23:52

mike (-nospam@yahoo.com) writes:
> I added a linked server successfully; but the only tables accessible are
> only the system tables!
> I do have all the rights on both servers (Windows & SQL server).
>
> All the non system tables are designated as DBO.
>
> Strange thing is that I was able to access the non system tables only
> from the query analyzer (not from the SQL Manager tree) by using the
> following script:

That may be true that you can't see the tables in a linked server from
a graphical management tool. After all that could be a costly operation.


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