FIX: Abort of Distributed Transaction with Xproc May Cause Assertions, Access Violations and Server Shutdown

If a distributed transaction is aborted and one of the participants is executing an extended stored procedure or T-SQL server-to-server remote stored procedure call (RPC) command, various types of assertions and access violations (AV) may occur some of which can result in a server shutdown.

Avoid using an extended stored procedure or T-SQL RPC in a distributed transaction.

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in SQL Server 7.0. This problem has been corrected in U.S. Service Pack 3 for Microsoft SQL Server 7.0. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: For more information, contact your primary support provider.