Wednesday, 6 February 2013

Linked Server Error from SQL to ORACLE

The below error is reported by our application team, when they tried to access records from Oracle database using SQL server linked server. I came to know that this was working fine till the last day without issues.


Resolution

1) Checked the Provider properties of OraOLEDB.Oracle and the AllowInprocess 
    was checked.
2) I had to restart (fail over) the instance to make it functional.