FIX: Changes to the member properties structure in SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services can cause incorrect results or service failures

After you have made structural changes to the member properties of a dimension in Analysis Services, the following behavior may occur:

• Queries that reference the member properties of the dimension may return incorrect results.
• Queries that reference the member properties of the dimension may return "#ERR".
• The Analysis Services service may crash when the Analysis Services service, or Msmdsrv.exe process, tries to run the query.

When structural changes are made to the member properties of a dimension in Analysis Services, the server must rebuild the member properties for the dimension. If a member exists in the multidimensional OLAP (MOLAP) dimension structure, but the relational source record for the dimension member no longer exists, the member properties for that member cannot be retrieved. Therefore, the dimension member structure and the member properties structure are no longer synchronized, and the behavior that is mentioned in the "Symptoms" section occurs.

Service pack information

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

Hotfix information

Prerequisites

This hotfix requires SQL Server 2000 Analysis Services Service Pack 3 (SP3).

For additional information about how to obtain SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Restart information

You do not have to restart your computer after you apply this hotfix.

Hotfix file information

This hotfix contains only the files that you must have to correct the issues that this article describes. This hotfix may not contain all the files that you must have to fully update a product to the latest build.

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

This problem was first corrected in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 4.

For a list of earlier hotfixes, see the "Microsoft SQL Server 2000 post-Service Pack 3 or Microsoft SQL Server 2000 post-Service Pack 3a hotfixes" section in the following Microsoft Knowledge Base article: For additional information about the naming schema for Microsoft SQL Server updates, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: For additional information about terminology that describes Microsoft resources, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: