InstantForum.NET v2.9.0SQLServerCentralhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/notifications@sqlservercentral.comTue, 18 Jun 2013 21:14:56 GMT20http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic658526-5-1.aspxsee if this is related at all:[url=http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/sqltools/thread/46eb7c06-e2fd-463b-b3d4-2ebbd81215cc/]http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/forums/en-US/sqltools/thread/46eb7c06-e2fd-463b-b3d4-2ebbd81215cc/[/url]Tue, 17 Feb 2009 21:05:18 GMTJason Criderhttp://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic658526-5-1.aspxGood dya,I am using SQL server 2005. When I tried link a server, I click the server objects and then linked servers. Then when click the Provider in other to select the provider type I received the following error message after about 5 minutes:TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio------------------------------Failed to retrieve data for this request. (Microsoft.SqlServer.SmoEnum)For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&LinkId=20476------------------------------ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch. (Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo)------------------------------Cannot insert the value NULL into column 'Description', table 'tempdb.dbo.#OLEDBProv__________________________________________________________________________00000000001D'; column does not allow nulls. INSERT fails.The statement has been terminated. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 515)For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=09.00.4035&EvtSrc=MSSQLServer&EvtID=515&LinkId=20476Can some help with this issue?Tue, 17 Feb 2009 07:50:06 GMTcontrol