Symptoms
Assume that you use Microsoft SQL Server 2016 and 2017, and you have a database that uses ColumnStore tables. When you run the function sys.fn_dump_dblog against transaction log backup (*.TRN) files, you may notice that Access violation occurs.
Msg 0, Level 11, State 0, Line LineNumber
A severe error occurred on the current command. The results, if any, should be discarded.
Here is an example of the sys.fn_dump_dblog command:
select *
from sys.fn_dump_dblog('0x0014e87d:0000f322:0053', NULL, NULL, 1,
'FileName\FilePath'
,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,
NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,
NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL,NULL)
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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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:
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