Symptoms
Assume that you use SQL Server PolyBase query to read text files from Hadoop. When the following conditions are met, you may notice that the results returned are wrong:
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The file doesn't contain a byte order mark (BOM).
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The file starts with a null value.
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The total number of bytes in the file is equal to the number of bytes in the BOM sequence. For example: 2 for UTF16 and 3 for UTF8.
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:
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Workaround
To work around this issue, you may manually modify the file on the Hadoop cluster so that the conditions are not met.
References
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