Article ID: 892451 - Last Review: November 2, 2007 - Revision: 2.4

BUG: You receive an "EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION" error message when you use a RIGHT OUTER JOIN clause in SQL Server 2000

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Bug #: 363638 (SQL Server 8.0)

SYMPTOMS

In Microsoft SQL Server 2000, when you run a query that contains a RIGHT OUTER JOIN clause, you may receive an error message that is similar to the following:

ODBC: Msg 0, Level 19, State 1
SqlDumpExceptionHandler: Process 52 generated fatal exception c0000005 EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION. SQL Server is terminating this process.

Connection Broken

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RESOLUTION

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:

290211 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290211/ ) How to obtain the latest SQL Server 2000 service pack

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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.

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

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MORE INFORMATION

Steps to reproduce the problem

To reproduce this problem, run the following query in SQL Query Analyzer:

USE pubs
go
SELECT *
FROM titles t
RIGHT OUTER JOIN publishers
ON publishers.pub_id=t.pub_id
AND t.ytd_sales = (
  SELECT max(ytd_sales)
    FROM titles
  WHERE publishers.pub_id=titles.pub_id
)
go

Note After you run this query, you receive the error message and the SQL Server connection is broken.

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