Symptoms
Assume that you use Microsoft SQL Server, and you have a partition table in a database. When you use the sys.dm_db_incremental_stats_properties function to check partition information, not all partitions are shown if the data type of the partitioning column is any of the following types: char, nchar, varchar, nvarchar, binary, varbinary, or sql_variant.
Resolution
This issue is fixed in the following cumulative updates for SQL Server:
Cumulative Update 7 for SQL Server 2016 RTM
Cumulative Update 4 for SQL Server 2016 SP1
Cumulative Update 5 for SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 2
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
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.
References
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