Have a look to see if there are any triggers or foreign key constraints that
are causing this.
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[quoted text, click to view] "djc" <noone@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> Windows 2000 Server sp4, SQL Server 2000 sp3
>
> I get the error below when attempting to delete a record from a table
> called
> Monitor directly from Enterprise Manager GUI.
> error:
> [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server][Invalid Object Name]
> 'tsvw_KJDKFAJDFKJAKLFDJKLAJDFKJASKFDJKAJDF'
> [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server][Invalid Object
> Name]UserA.Monitor
> [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server][Invalid Object Name]
> 'ctsv_DKFJDKJFKDJFKDKFJDKJFIEJIEJIEJFIEJFKJDKJ'
>
> The KDJFKDJFKJDF above is obviously not exact. The actual error contains
> a
> long string of random characters though.. If i'm not mistaken these are
> system generated names for views related to replication.
>
> 1) could this be replication related?
>
> 2) Important note: UserA is NOT the current owner of the Monitor table!
> UserA used to own the table but due to replication issues the owner was
> changed to dbo a long time ago. ?? Can I safely run the
> sp_changeobjectowner
> procedure specifying dbo again or would I need to drop the merge
> replication
> in order to do that?
>
> 3) I verified that the tsvw_ect... and the ctsv_ect... do not exist in the
> database?
>
> any suggestions about how to get to the bottom of this would be GREATLY
> appreciated. Thanks.
>
>