Symptoms
When you run Process Data on a partition in a tabular model of Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS), you may receive an error message that resembles the following on the first attempt:
Note
ErrorCode="3241541689" Description="Partition '<partition id>' of table '<table name>' cannot contain column segments of different data versions."
However, the subsequent execution may succeed.
Resolution
This issue is fixed in the following cumulative update for SQL Server:
Cumulative Update 6 for SQL Server 2016 RTM
Cumulative Update 3 for SQL Server 2016 SP1
Cumulative Update 6 for SQL Server 2014 SP2
Cumulative Update 13 for SQL Server 2014 SP1
Cumulative Update 8 for SQL Server 2012 SP3
About cumulative updates for SQL Server
Each new cumulative update for SQL Server contains all the hotfixes and all the security fixes that were included with the previous cumulative update. Check out the latest cumulative updates for SQL Server:
Latest cumulative update for SQL Server 2016
Latest cumulative update for SQL Server 2014
Latest cumulative update for SQL Server 2012 SP3
Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
References
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