Symptoms
When you run a query that contains a nested loop join, SQL Server may add a spool to the inner side of the nested loop during query optimization for performance reasons. In very rare cases, this nested loop may have more outer references than the number of references that are used by the inner side of the same join.During query runtime, the outer reference values may change. In some situations, the values may change for only those references that are not used by the inner side of the nested loop. In these situations, the added performance spool can interpret this change incorrectly. Therefore, it returns incorrect results.
Cause
This issue occurs because of a problem in the performance spool.
Cumulative Update information
This issue was first fixed in the following cumulative update of SQL Server.
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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.
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