Symptoms
You may encounter an Access Violation exception using Availability Groups (AG) in SQL Server 2017 and 2019, under the following conditions:
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There are large log backups of the secondary replica (The size of each log backup may be measured in few GBs).
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Primary and secondary replica transport and database level connections timed out and reconnected, causing the ongoing log backup to fail.
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Primary replica may be experiencing a scheduler blocking pattern.
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 updates for SQL Server:
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Workaround
To workaround this issue, you may avoid:
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Access violation if the log backup is executed on Primary replica.
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Frequent transport and database disconnect and reconnect pattern (observed in the error log).
References
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