Symptoms
Assume that you have installed Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1 (SP1). When you use the SELECT TOP N statement with a very large N (tens or hundreds of thousands) to retrieve data from a columnstore index in batch mode, you get an access violation (AV) error.
Resolution
This issue is fixed in the following 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. Check out the latest cumulative updates for SQL Server:Latest cumulative update for SQL Server 2016
Workaround
The temporary workaround for this issue is to remove the keyword TOP from SELECT statement or enable Trace Flag - TF 9453 to disable batch mode.
Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
References
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