The following pop-up box might appear when working in the Connection Manager:

   Connection Manager

   Test connection failed because of an error in initializing provider.
   Multiple-step OLE DB operation generated errors.
   Check each OLE DB status value, if available. No work was done.

                                    OK.

Please see the following for possible solutions:

• Known Issues from the SAS 9.1 Data Providers: ADO/OLE DB Cookbook

  http://support.sas.com/documentation/tools/oledb/tm

• There is a Microsoft KB article documenting the error:

  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/269495

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