Anybody know how to solve this error when accessing a linked server that isn't a SQL data

TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
Failed to retrieve data for this request. (Microsoft.SqlServer.SmoEnum)
For help, click: [url]http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&LinkId=20476[ /url]
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch. (Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo)
Cannot obtain the schema rowset "DBSCHEMA_CATALOGS" for OLE DB provider "SQL Server" for linked server "(null)". The provider supports the interface, but returns a failure code when it is used. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 7311)
For help, click: [url]http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=09.00 .3042&EvtSrc=MSSQLServer&EvtID=7311&LinkId=20476[/url]
BUTTONS:
OK
The links take you to the "We're sorry page," which doesn't help.
Thanks,
Tony
Tony
Could be a bug
http://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/Validation.aspx?FeedbackID=261012
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TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio
Failed to retrieve data for this request. (Microsoft.SqlServer.SmoEnum)
For help, click: [url]http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&LinkId=20476[ /url]
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
An exception occurred while executing a Transact-SQL statement or batch. (Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo)
Cannot obtain the schema rowset "DBSCHEMA_CATALOGS" for OLE DB provider "SQL Server" for linked server "(null)". The provider supports the interface, but returns a failure code when it is used. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 7311)
For help, click: [url]http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=09.00 .3042&EvtSrc=MSSQLServer&EvtID=7311&LinkId=20476[/url]
BUTTONS:
OK
The links take you to the "We're sorry page," which doesn't help.
Thanks,
Tony

Any way to bold certain words in data field?

I'm working on cleaning up a report and got a request to bold certain words within a data field. I have no idea where to start or what to search on to do this. For instance, I would want to bold any occurance of "History:" or "Technique:" but not bold "history". The data is coming over as plain text in one large data field. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!We used to have a system that fed us the data in seperate fields of
History:
Technique:
Comparison:
Findings:
Conculsion:

but now we have a system that is unable to split the data elements up before feeding it into our system. We can't add any formating on the upstream system either unfortionately. Now our report looks like garbage lol. Hopefully one of you gurus will be able to help.

Any help on this SMO request?

My evaluation copy ran-out and I uninstlaled the previous and installed anothrer evaluation edition. The installation was successful. I created a SSIS package importing a tale from Oracle 10G XE to the SQL 2005 on my machine. I saved the package on the server. The SSIS service is working but when I try to refresh the node, I get this message. The help linl leads to no where:

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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:

Login timeout expired
An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections.
TCP Provider: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (Microsoft SQL Native Client)

Login timeout expired
An error has occurred while establishing a connection to the server. When connecting to SQL Server 2005, this failure may be caused by the fact that under the default settings SQL Server does not allow remote connections.
TCP Provider: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it. (Microsoft SQL Native Client)

My efforts so far:

I have verified the items in the Surface area screen, everythign looks good.

SSIS service has started.

Both teh Network Server TCP/IP dynmaic port and the SQL Client TCP/IP dynamic port are the same.

I have no problem logging in to any of the services. But I get this message.

I tried to create a package from Visual Studio, but that also did not succeed.

In my previous set up, I created perhaps 1/ 2 dozen different packages.

I am puzzzled.

I appreciate if some one could throw some light.

If you could get the function call stack when the error occurs, that would help diagnose the problem. At the bottom of the exception message box, there is a little icon with a tooltip like "technical details" which displays this information.

Also, if you could provide more specific steps to reproduce the problem, that would help too. Are you using SSIS when you get this problem, or some Management Studio UI that uses SSIS, like the Copy Database Wizard? You can get more specific SSIS configuration help in the SSIS forum here: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=80&SiteID=1

Thanks,
Steve