After some months getting the problem for the first time, I stumbled upon it once again today, but got the solution now and I'll post here for future reference:

Simply check...

I want to thank you all for your replies, this way I can show to my boss just how wrong he is and tell him we're wasting a lot of...

Thank you for your answer Sanjiv!

Anyway, it was a SQL Server 2008 R2, but I "fixed" the problem (notice the quotes) by restarting the instance. I've got no idea what...

Greetings!

I've landed in this post because I have a similar problem.

I work in an organization with several development servers. I have made linked servers to all of them from my...