PRB: SQL Server Error 1608 in Errorlog

ID Number: Q66936

1.10 1.11 4.20

OS/2

Summary:

SYMPTOMS

The following error occured when the net cable was unplugged from

a SQL Server client end while a SELECT query was being executed on

a client machine:

Nov 8 1990 1:49PM kernel: Cannot read, host process disconnected:

PC Client 36 spid: 1

Nov 8 1990 1:49PM kernel: Cannot read, host process disconnected:

PC Client 36 spid: 1

Nov 8 1990 1:49PM server: Error: 1608, Severity: 21, State: 2

Nov 8 1990 1:49PM server: Hard error encountered flushing network

send buffer

CAUSE

In general, this error message is caused by the front end dying or

otherwise going away without a clean close of its connection. In

many cases, it is indicative of a network problem of some sort

(such as the above instance, when the net cable is unplugged.)