Symptoms
When you add a subscription to an Oracle transactional publication or an Oracle snapshot publication in SQL Server 2014 or 2016, you receive the following error message:
A publication must have at least one article before a subscription to it can be created.
The subscription could not be found.
Changed database context to 'distribution'. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 14124)
The subscription could not be found.
Changed database context to 'distribution'. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 14124)
Resolution
This issue is fixed in the following cumulative update for SQL Server:
Cumulative Update 5 for SQL Server 2016 RTM
Cumulative Update 2 for SQL Server 2016 SP1
Cumulative Update 5 for SQL Server 2016 RTM
Cumulative Update 2 for SQL Server 2016 SP1
About cumulative updates for SQL Server
Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.