Setting up linked servers with an out-of-process OLEDB provider

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    -- Gianluca Sartori

  • Hah. I never knew what the in-process checkbox was for, on the provider properties, only that I had to check it, in order for the linked server to actually work. lols

    Now I know a little more, and I'll keep checking it every time I need one. hahaha!

    Thanks,

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  • Fine, you made a great job.

  • Excellent article - thank you

  • It was my pleasure to get a first glimps of your article.

    This is a lesser known topic, but definately has its place in SQL instance management topics.

    Great job !

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  • Gian,

    This article is highly informative. Great stuff.

    Thanks for the time in preparing this material.

    I guess you might taken weeks for this.

    M&M

  • ALZDBA (6/9/2011)


    It was my pleasure to get a first glimps of your article.

    This is a lesser known topic, but definately has its place in SQL instance management topics.

    Great job !

    Johan, I really appreciated your feedback and you certainly made this article better.

    Thank you.

    -- Gianluca Sartori

  • nice article gianluca, its good to have this sort of information out there in one article.

    I gotta ask though, should it really be that convoluted! MS all over. 🙂

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  • Nice article.

    It makes me wonder why 64-bit SQL can't use 32-bit providers (eg Jet), since the bit-ness of out-of-process COM components doesn't matter. They'd only need a 32-bit host process.

    It might be more complicated to set up, but surely it would be easier that the current workaround of putting a 32-bit SQL Express instance in the middle!

  • richardd (6/9/2011)


    Nice article.

    It makes me wonder why 64-bit SQL can't use 32-bit providers (eg Jet), since the bit-ness of out-of-process COM components doesn't matter. They'd only need a 32-bit host process.

    It might be more complicated to set up, but surely it would be easier that the current workaround of putting a 32-bit SQL Express instance in the middle!

    That's an interesting question!

    You can define a custom surrogate process for a COM component in the registry. I don't know if it can be set to use a 32 bit surrogate, but this thread suggests it can be done. It would be great if you could try and give us some feedback.

    -- Gianluca Sartori

  • One of the best articles on the web for configuring linked server connections. The part that describes what specific resources a provider must be granted access to before it will run out-of-process is especially useful, and I'm sure there is a long story with plenty or trial and error. Thanks.

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  • Eric M Russell (6/9/2011)


    ... I'm sure there is a long story with plenty or trial and error.

    ...longer than you could ever imagine!

    Thank you.

    -- Gianluca Sartori

  • Excellent, excellent article, Gianluca!

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  • Nice article Gianluca.

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  • Good thorough article, Gianluca.

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