Four Part Naming Convention in SQL Server


In SQL server if you want to reference a table using four-part naming convention and you receive the error message: Server ‘xxxx’ is not configured for DATA ACCESS. Then you need to execute this statement against the target server:

EXEC sp_serveroption 'xxxx','DATA ACCESS',TRUE 

… that should fix the problem. An obvious point here is to replace xxxx with the target server.

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