Microsoft KB Archive/313993

= BUG: VSS Database Truncates Stored Procedures Larger Than 4 KB =

Article ID: 313993

Article Last Modified on 10/21/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual SourceSafe 6.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q313993



SYMPTOMS
When you check in stored procedures that are larger than 4 KB, anything after the 4 KB limit is truncated in the Visual SourceSafe (VSS) database. The stored procedure is never truncated in the SQL Server database.



RESOLUTION
A supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft, but it is only intended to correct the problem that this article describes. Apply it only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem.

Note You must have a Visual Studio license agreement to obtain this hotfix.

To resolve this problem, contact Microsoft Product Support Services to obtain the hotfix. For a complete list of Microsoft Product Support Services telephone numbers and information about support costs, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://support.microsoft.com/contactus/?ws=support

Note In special cases, charges that are ordinarily incurred for support calls may be canceled if a Microsoft Support Professional determines that a specific update will resolve your problem. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for the specific update in question. The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

  Date         Time   Version  Size   File name     Platform --  Oct-17-2001  14:17  2.0      398KB  Mdt2dbns.dll  x86



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.



MORE INFORMATION
This hotfix also resolves the issue in which SQL Server consumes 100 percent of the resources of the CPU and adds new stored procedures to the source control, as well as the issue in which source control icons do not appear in Visual InterDev.

Additional query words: sourcesafe interdev sql 2000 trunc truncated stored procedure proc source control

Keywords: kbbug kbqfe kbpending kbhotfixserver KB313993

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