Symptoms
Assume that you execute a statement to create statistics or execute a statement that creates statistics in the background in Microsoft SQL Server 2014. When the data values have over 15 significant decimal digits and the data distribution is not well distributed and rather dense at some thin ranges, the statistics cannot be created, and there is no error message.
Resolution
The issue was first fixed in the following cumulative update of SQL Server.
Cumulative Update 1 for SQL Server 2014 SP1 /en-us/help/3067839
Cumulative Update 8 for SQL Server 2014 /en-us/help/3067836
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:
More Information
You can use the following code to reproduce this issue on a server that has more than four cores:
use master
go
drop database <DataBase Name>
go
create database <DataBase Name>
go
ALTER DATABASE <DataBase Name> SET AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS OFF
go
use <DataBase Name>;
go
create table <Table Name>
(
id decimal(19,0) NULL
)
go
declare @i int = 0
DECLARE @NewRows AS table (id decimal(19,0))
insert into @NewRows values(1234567890123456789)
while @i < 12 begin
insert into @NewRows select * from @NewRows
set @i = @i + 1
end
insert into <Table Name> select * from @NewRows
go
declare @i int = 0
DECLARE @NewRows AS table (id decimal(19,0))
insert into @NewRows values(1234567890123457691)
while @i < 16 begin
insert into @NewRows select * from @NewRows
set @i = @i + 1
end
insert into <Table Name> select * from @NewRows
go
declare @i int = 0
DECLARE @NewRows AS table (id decimal(19,0))
insert into @NewRows values(1234567890123457692)
while @i < 12 begin
insert into @NewRows select * from @NewRows
set @i = @i + 1
end
insert into <Table Name> select * from @NewRows
go
create statistics stat on <Table Name> ([id])
go
use master
go
drop database <DataBase Name>
go
Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
