Microsoft KB Archive/277738

= FIX: Aggregations in Parallel Query May Generate Incorrect Results =

Article ID: 277738

Article Last Modified on 3/14/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q277738



BUG #: 58334 (SQLBUG_70)



SYMPTOMS
A query with aggregations may return incorrect results when a parallel query plan is chosen to do the aggregations. The following example shows part of a simplified parallel query plan chosen to do aggregations: |--Stream Aggregate(GROUP BY:(...) ...) |--Parallelism(Gather Streams) |--Stream Aggregate(GROUP BY:(...) ...) |--Bookmark Lookup(BOOKMARK:([Bmk1000]), OBJECT:(...) ...) |--Parallelism(Distribute Streams)



WORKAROUND
You can work around this problem in the following ways:   Disable parallel plan generation globally for the entire server by setting the max degree of parallelism option to 1 through the sp_configure system stored procedure.

NOTE: To disable parallel plan generation through sp_configure, you must enable the show advanced options configuration setting: sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1 reconfigure with override go sp_configure 'max degree of parallelism', 1 reconfigure with override go -or-  Disable the creation of a parallel plan by using the OPTION (MAXDOP 1) query hint for the statement that is experiencing the problem.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in SQL Server 7.0. This problem has been corrected in U.S. Service Pack 3 for Microsoft SQL Server 7.0. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

274799 INF: How to Obtain Service Pack 3 for Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 and Microsoft Data Engine (MSDE) 1.0

For more information, contact your primary support provider.

Additional query words: max dop, Incorrect results

Keywords: kbbug kbfix KB277738

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