Article ID: 319610 - Last Review: September 27, 2005 - Revision: 5.2

FIX: You may receive unexpected results when you use a text column and an OR operator to combine criteria from multiple subqueries

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BUG #: 356793 (SHILOH_BUGS)

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SYMPTOMS

A query may return inconsistent results (more than one instance of each row) if a query retrieves a text column and the query uses an OR operator to retrieve criteria from multiple subqueries.

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To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

290211 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290211/EN-US/ ) INF: How To Obtain the Latest SQL Server 2000 Service Pack

NOTE: The following hotfix was created before the release of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3.

The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

   Date          Time          Version    Size              File name 
   --------------------------------------------------------------------- 

   13-MAR-2002   10:28:09 PM   8.00.597   7,446,609 bytes   Sqlservr.exe

NOTE: Because of file dependencies, the most recent hotfix or feature that contains the files may also contain additional files.

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STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
This problem was first corrected in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3.

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