problem with federated server linking
Hello everyone.
I am trying to implement linked servers and I am having some trouble. The setup is as follows: I have two machines with the same SA login/pwd. BOTH machines have a database called: Federated_Bridge.
On machine 1: Federated_Bridge contains a table Fed_Entity_1
On machine 2: Federated_Bridge contains a table Fed_Entity_2
Machine 1, when I look it up in SQL Enterprise Manager it says: (local)
Machine 2, when I look it up in SQL Enterprise Manager it says: REALIBM2
When I expand those, I can see the databases folder and I can then see Federated_Bridge respectively.
On machine 1 (local) I am trying to create a linked server. I use the following SP call:
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use master
go
EXEC sp_addlinkedserver
@server = 'TEST3',
@srvproduct = 'SQLServer OLEDB Provider',
@provider = 'SQLOLEDB',
@datasrc = 'REALIBM2\Federated_Bridge'
EXEC sp_addlinkedsrvlogin 'TEST3', 'false', 'sa', 'sa', 'mysapwd'
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The above queries seem to execute fine. Afterwards, when I check in Enterprise manager, I can see under linked servers TEST3 .. but no tables or views are showing.
When I run the following select query from query analyzer, I get an error message:
SELECT * FROM Test3.Federated_Bridge.dbo.Fed_Entity_2
SQL Server Does Not Exist Or Access Denied
Please help!!
Thanks.
