Symptoms

Assume that you create a distributed availability group by using automatic seeding in Microsoft SQL Server 2016. You will periodically receive a series of memory dumps that resemble the following when access violation occurs:

Stack Dump being sent to FilePath

SqlDumpExceptionHandler: Process ProcessId generated fatal exception ExceptionId EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION. SQL Server is terminating this process.

* BEGIN STACK DUMP:

*   04/17/19 04:28:00 spid SpidId

*   Exception Address = AddressId Module(sqlmin+00000000007C73A6)

*   Exception Code    = CodeId EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION

*   Access Violation occurred reading address AddressId

Status

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

Resolution

This issue is fixed in the following cumulative update for SQL Server:

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:

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