RE: Some linked server connections stop working

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September 5, 2012 at 1:58 pm

i believe that can happen if a transaction between the server and a linked server gets rolled back, but never completes the rollback.

if you check sp_who2 for spid = -2, which is indicative of the issue, i think that's the problem;

only way to fix it is to bounce the server, which rollsback the transaction without waiting for the Distributed Transaction Coordinator to report successfully rolled back @ the linked server.

Lowell

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