Symptoms
Consider the following scenario:
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You have Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 (SP1) installed on a computer.
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You create a linked server to a NON-MS data source by using a third-party OLE DB provider.
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A client application executes some distributed queries through the linked server.
In this scenario, you receive the following error message:
Msg 7369, Level 16, State 1, Line 1
The OLE DB provider '<ProviderName>' provided invalid collation.Resolution
The issue was first fixed in the following cumulative update of SQL Server.
Cumulative update 6 for SQL Server 2012 SP1 /en-us/help/2874879
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Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.