Unable to begin a distributed transaction

Question

I\'m trying to run SQL against a linked server, but I get the errors below :

BEGIN DISTRIBUTED TRANSACTION
SELECT TOP 1 * FROM Sessions


OLE DB provider &quo         


        

Answer 1

I was able to resolve this issue (as others mentioned in comments) by disabling "Enable Promotion of Distributed Transactions for RPC" (i.e. setting it to False):

As requested by @WonderWorker, you can do this via SQL script:

EXEC master.dbo.sp_serveroption
     @server = N'[mylinkedserver]',
     @optname = N'remote proc transaction promotion',
     @optvalue = N'false'