FIX: You receive an access violation when you process an object or alter an object after you run an MDX query against the object in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services

After you run a Multidimensional Expressions (MDX) query against an object in SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services, you receive an access violation when you try to process the object or to alter the object. This problem occurs if the following conditions are true:

• You connect to an instance of SQL Server 2005 Analysis Services by using an account that has a combination of roles.
• You disconnect the connection after you run the MDX query.

Cumulative update information

The fix for this issue was first released in Cumulative Update 2. For more information about how to obtain this cumulative update package for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:Note Because the builds are cumulative, each new fix release contains all the hotfixes and all the security fixes that were included with the previous SQL Server 2005 fix release. Microsoft recommends that you consider applying the most recent fix release that contains this hotfix. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:Microsoft SQL Server 2005 hotfixes are created for specific SQL Server service packs. You must apply a SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 hotfix to an installation of SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2. By default, any hotfix that is provided in a SQL Server service pack is included in the next SQL Server service pack.

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