BUG: Corrrelated Subquery with WHERE, GROUP BY, and HAVING Clauses May Raise Error 803

• Microsoft SQL Server version 6.5

SYMPTOMS

When using a correlated subquery that contains a GROUP BY, a HAVING, and a WHERE clause, the query may result in error 803.

The following conditions must be met to raise error 803:

• The column used in the outer query must appear in the WHERE clause of the subquery.



• The GROUP BY statement must include a second column from the table used in the outer query.



• The second column must also appear in the HAVING clause.



• Both the WHERE and the HAVING clause must evaluate to true.

Msg 803, Level 20, State 2
Unable to place buffer 0x0 holding logical page 1336 in sdes for object
'tbl1' - either there is no room in sdes or buffer already in requested
slot.

The SQL Server is terminating this process.

DB-Library: Possible network error: Write to SQL Server Failed.
Net-Library error 232: ConnectionWrite (GetOverLappedResult()).

DB-Library Process Dead - Connection Broken

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, try one of the following:

• Break the query into two separate queries.
  
  -or-



• Place the subquery results into a temporary table.
  
  -or-



• Use trace flag 328 to force suquery unnesting.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in SQL Server version 6.5.

MORE INFORMATION

This problem does not occur on SQL Server 7.0.

Additional query words: err message

Keywords : SSrvTran_SQL kbbug6.50
Version : WINNT:6.5
Platform : winnt
Issue type : kbbug