KB3138319 - FIX: Numeric overflow when you run a query that spills more than 65,535 extents to tempdb in SQL Server 2014 or 2012

Applies To
SQL Server 2014 Developer - duplicate (do not use) SQL Server 2014 Enterprise - duplicate (do not use) SQL Server 2014 Express - duplicate (do not use) SQL Server 2014 Standard - duplicate (do not use) SQL Server 2014 Web - duplicate (do not use) SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 3 SQL Server 2012 Developer SQL Server 2012 Enterprise SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Core SQL Server 2012 Express SQL Server 2012 Standard SQL Server 2012 Web

Symptoms

When you run a query that tries to spill more than 65,535 extents to the tempdb database, an numeric overflow occurs. Therefore, an incorrect is returned.

Cause

This issue occurs because you can't read all the extents back after overflow.

Resolution

Cumulative update information

The issue was first fixed in the following cumulative update of SQL Server:

Recommendation: Install the latest cumulative update 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. We recommend that you download and install the latest cumulative updates for SQL Server 2014:

      

      

Status

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