Error with Linked Servers

From time to time the linked servers we have set up cannot be accessed. When
I click on the tables node under the linked server within enterprise manager
the session hangs and no error message is displayed. When querying the data
via an openquery no error is thrown, the query simply runs until manually
aborted.
I've created a linked server OK but immediately cannot open it. The only way
around this problem we have is a reboot of the server. Does anyone know how
to resolve this problem and also what would cause this.
Thanks
MikeMikeD
Do you have ping to linked server?
"MikeD" <MikeD@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:ACBEC816-1EE1-46E8-9535-8E52BB7C502A@.microsoft.com...
> From time to time the linked servers we have set up cannot be accessed.
> When
> I click on the tables node under the linked server within enterprise
> manager
> the session hangs and no error message is displayed. When querying the
> data
> via an openquery no error is thrown, the query simply runs until manually
> aborted.
> I've created a linked server OK but immediately cannot open it. The only
> way
> around this problem we have is a reboot of the server. Does anyone know
> how
> to resolve this problem and also what would cause this.
> Thanks
> Mike|||I can ping the server that sql is on if that's what you mean. I can see and
create linked servers but cannot query them - see below.
"Uri Dimant" wrote:

> MikeD
> Do you have ping to linked server?
> "MikeD" <MikeD@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:ACBEC816-1EE1-46E8-9535-8E52BB7C502A@.microsoft.com...
>
>|||MikeD
Do you run the query in this way?
SELECT <> FROM Server.dbname.dbo.table
"MikeD" <MikeD@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2C11B49F-D1BF-48C2-9ECC-2470666F9691@.microsoft.com...[vbcol=seagreen]
>I can ping the server that sql is on if that's what you mean. I can see and
> create linked servers but cannot query them - see below.
> "Uri Dimant" wrote:
>|||No - it's an openquery so it's :
SELECT * FROM OPENQUERY[linked_server_name], 'Select * from table_name'
But the problem isn't so much in the query it's the fact that when you
select the linked server the system hangs with no error message and the only
way we have of resolving the issue is a server reboot
"Uri Dimant" wrote:

> MikeD
> Do you run the query in this way?
> SELECT <> FROM Server.dbname.dbo.table
>
>
> "MikeD" <MikeD@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:2C11B49F-D1BF-48C2-9ECC-2470666F9691@.microsoft.com...
>
>|||Well, is it large set data you want to return?
exec sp_serveroption 'servername','data access','true'
"MikeD" <MikeD@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:6EA13818-E61B-49E7-B6E0-35F581ADAF0F@.microsoft.com...[vbcol=seagreen]
> No - it's an openquery so it's :
> SELECT * FROM OPENQUERY[linked_server_name], 'Select * from table_name
'
> But the problem isn't so much in the query it's the fact that when you
> select the linked server the system hangs with no error message and the
> only
> way we have of resolving the issue is a server reboot
> "Uri Dimant" wrote:
>|||It's nothing to do with the query or the size of data. the problem is that
the linked server cannot be accessed until a reboot is done.
"Uri Dimant" wrote:

> Well, is it large set data you want to return?
> exec sp_serveroption 'servername','data access','true'
>
> "MikeD" <MikeD@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:6EA13818-E61B-49E7-B6E0-35F581ADAF0F@.microsoft.com...
>
>