VB.NET DataSet not working with view with linked SQL Server

Question

I am in DataGrid hell right now but that's another post.

Anyway, I wrote a view with a union query in SQL Server that grabs data from a linked SQL server.

Anytime I try to add this object as a dataset in VB.NET it completely bombs out on me with this ugly error message...

ERROR [42000] [Microsoft] [ODBC SQL Server Driver] [SQL Server] The operation could not be performed because the OLE DB Provider 'SQLOLEDB' was unable to begin a distributed transaction. ERROR [01000] [Microsoft] [ODBC SQL Server Driver] [SQL Server] [OLE/DB provider returned message : new transaction cannot enlist in the specified transaction coordinator] ERROR [01000] [Microsoft] [ODBC SQL Server Driver] [SQL Server] OLE DB Error Trace [OLE/DB Provider 'SQLOLEDB' lTransactionJoin::JoinTransaction returned 0x8004d00a]

I'm completely stumped as to why I can't create a dataset from a view that references a linked SQL server. It's not this specific view either, all views that reference this linked server bomb out.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Answer 1

This simple answer is to enable MSDTC on the servers. As to why this is happening on your views, I'm not entirely sure. There are also some good trouble shooting tips here.