Microsoft KB Archive/280684

= PRB: Merge Replication Fails with &quot;Process could not enumerate changes&quot; Error Message When Assigning a Blank Value to an Image Column =

Article ID: 280684

Article Last Modified on 10/16/2003

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q280684



SYMPTOMS
When you assign a blank value to an image column table that is part of merge replication, the Merge agent may fail with the following error message:

The process could not enumerate changes at the Subscriber.

Full Message: Invalid argument value

This behavior only happens when the image column is updated to an empty string value such as &quot;&quot; on either the Publishing or Subscribing merge table.

You can check whether you have an empty string value in your image column by viewing the binary value stored in the image column. A binary value of &quot;0x&quot; indicates an empty string value.



CAUSE
This error message occurs because of an incorrect data conversion by the SQLGetData ODBC driver function. The SQLGetData function incorrectly interprets a blank value stored in the image column.



WORKAROUND
Avoid assigning empty string values (&quot;&quot;) to the image columns.

To resolve this merge agent error, UPDATE the image column to a non-empty string value such as NULL or to an actual string value.



Steps to Reproduce Problem
  Run the following CREATE TABLE statement: Create Table Imagetest1 (c1 int ,c2 image,c3 char(4), c4 uniqueidentifier rowguidcol)  Publish the table for Merge Replication.  Run the following INSERT statement, which updates the image column to a blank value. Insert Imagetest1 values(1,'','merge_test',newid)  Run the Merge agent. The Merge agent fails because of an invalid data type conversion for the image column.

  To resolve this error, run the following UPDATE statement: UPDATE Imagetest1 set image = 'non_blank_value' where c1 = 1 The Merge agent now runs successfully. </ol>

Additional query words: merge image enumerate changes

Keywords: kbprb KB280684

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