Error 7403

Severity Level 16

Message Text

Could not locate registry entry for OLE DB provider '%ls'.

Explanation

This error message indicates one of the following:

• The OLE DB provider is not registered properly.
  
  
• The name of the provider used in the provider_name parameter of sp_addlinkedserver (or specified in the OPENROWSET function) is incorrect.

Action

Verify that the provider has been registered correctly and that the provider_name parameter uses the PROGID of the provider.

See Also

Distributed Queries

OPENROWSET

sp_addlinkedserver