Fixes event ID 1000 and 1001 issues that occur when you run Replmerg.exe to enumerate changes to a statement of a stored procedure that contains more than 4,000 characters in SQL Server.

Fixes a problem in which you receive error 1456 when you try to add a witness to a database mirroring session when the database name is the same as an existing database mirroring session. This problem occurs in SQL Server 2005 or in SQL Server 2008.

For all supported editions of SQL Server 7.0 Service Pack 4. Resolves four privately disclosed vulnerabilities. The more serious of the vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to run code and to take complete control of the system.

Resolves a vulnerability that exists in Windows common controls that could allow remote code execution if a user visits a website that contains specially crafted content designed to exploit the vulnerability.

Resolves a vulnerability in Microsoft XML Editor that could allow information disclosure if a user opened a specially crafted Web Service Discovery (.disco) file within one of the applications listed in the "Applies to" section.

General information about the "sys.change_tracking_databases" function. Fixes some change tracking function issues and DMV issues that occur after an automatic database mirroring failover occurs in SQL Server 2008 R2 or in SQL Server 2008.

This article describes cumulative update package 12 (build 12.0.4511.0) for Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1 (SP1). This update contains fixes that were released after the release of SQL Server 2014 SP1.

Symptoms. When you run a distributed query that uses a linked server in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or in Microsoft SQL Server 2008, the execution fails. Additionally, you receive the following error message: OLE DB provider "SQLNCLI" for linked server " Linked Server " returned message "No transaction is active.".

In an application, you use SQL Native Client to connect to the instance of the principal server in the database mirroring session. In the application, you set the Failover_Partner option in the connection string to the mirror server. A failover occurs in the database mirroring session.

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