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Author  Topic  siva237 Starting Member 3 Posts Posted - 2011-02-23 : 04:19:15 Hi All, I have a distributed transaction which contains openrowset as shown below set xact_abort on begin tran update opr set tno = 5 from openrowset('SQLOLEDB','SERVER=serverinstance;UID=userid;PWD=password','select * from databasename.dbo.test123') opr rollback tran I have been encountering with below error: OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI10" for linked server "(null)" returned message "No transaction is active.". Msg 7391, Level 16, State 2, Line 4 The operation could not be performed because OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI10" for linked server "(null)" was unable to begin a distributed transaction. I have enable MSDTC on both the servers.But still I am getting above error.The firewall has an exception to port 135 and msdtc.exe program. Please check this and help me out to resolve this issue. Thanks in advance and expedite response on this is highly appreciated. Regards, Siva Prasad v.siva prasad