Symptoms
Assume that you execute a statement to create statistics or execute a statement that creates statistics in the background in Microsoft SQL Server 2014. When the data values have over 15 significant decimal digits and the data distribution is not well distributed and rather dense at some thin ranges, the statistics cannot be created, and there is no error message.
Resolution
The issue was first fixed in the following cumulative update of SQL Server.
Cumulative Update 1 for SQL Server 2014 SP1 /en-us/help/3067839
Cumulative Update 8 for SQL Server 2014 /en-us/help/3067836
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More Information
You can use the following code to reproduce this issue on a server that has more than four cores:
use mastergodrop database <DataBase Name>gocreate database <DataBase Name>goALTER DATABASE <DataBase Name> SET AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS OFFgouse <DataBase Name>;gocreate table <Table Name>( id decimal(19,0) NULL)godeclare @i int = 0DECLARE @NewRows AS table (id decimal(19,0))insert into @NewRows values(1234567890123456789)while @i < 12 begin insert into @NewRows select * from @NewRows set @i = @i + 1endinsert into <Table Name> select * from @NewRowsgodeclare @i int = 0DECLARE @NewRows AS table (id decimal(19,0))insert into @NewRows values(1234567890123457691)while @i < 16 begin insert into @NewRows select * from @NewRows set @i = @i + 1endinsert into <Table Name> select * from @NewRowsgodeclare @i int = 0DECLARE @NewRows AS table (id decimal(19,0))insert into @NewRows values(1234567890123457692)while @i < 12 begin insert into @NewRows select * from @NewRows set @i = @i + 1endinsert into <Table Name> select * from @NewRowsgocreate statistics stat on <Table Name> ([id])gouse mastergodrop database <DataBase Name>go
Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.