THanks for the advise. I restarted the machine and still no joy.

When I run the command "EXEC sp_tables_ex is2" I get the following error:

OLE DB provider "SQL Server" for linked...

Aaah, just got a message.....

"Failed to retrieve data for this request. (Microsoft.SQlServer.SmoEnum).

Timeout expired.

Actually, all queries are timing out.

🙁

Hi,

I have managed to successfully make a connection with a mySQL database server.

However, when attempting to expand the Catalogs, It just seems to hang or indefintely attempts to expand.

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Hi there,

Very interesting article. I was attempting to add a linked server and wanted to confirm something.

I did not create a mapped login and instead specified the remote login and...