KB3016165 - FIX: Arithmetic overflow error occurs when you add manually initialized subscriptions for publication in SQL Server

Applies To
SQL Server 2012 Developer SQL Server 2012 Enterprise SQL Server 2012 Standard SQL Server 2014 Enterprise - duplicate (do not use) SQL Server 2014 Developer - duplicate (do not use) SQL Server 2014 Standard - duplicate (do not use) SQL Server 2014 Web - duplicate (do not use)

Symptoms

Assume that you use Microsoft SQL Server 2012 or SQL Server 2014 transactional replication. You try to add subscriptions with @sync\_type specified as 'replication support only', 'initialize with backup', or 'initialize from lsn' for publication, and the publication id is greater than 99. In this situation, you receive the following error message:

Note

Msg 8115, Level 16, State 2, Procedure sp_MSsetupnosyncsubscriptionwithlsn, Line 237
Arithmetic overflow error converting expression to data type nvarchar.

Resolution

Cumulative Update information

The issue was first fixed in the following cumulative update of SQL Server.

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Status

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.