Weird "OLE DB provider 'STREAM' for linked server '(null)' returned invalid data for column '[!BulkInsert].Value' error
问题 Software used: Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate, .Net 4, SQL Server 2008 R2. select @@version returns: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 (RTM) - 10.50.1617.0 (X64) Apr 22 2011 19:23:43 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation Developer Edition (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.1 <X64> (Build 7601: Service Pack 1) (Hypervisor) To reproduce, and assuming you have a local sql server 2008 R2 instance, paste the following code in linqpad and run it as a Program. It blows up with: OLE DB provider 'STREAM' for linked server