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FIX: Queries with TOP N PERCENT in Subquery May Fail with Error Message 8623

Article ID: 274467

Article Last Modified on 3/14/2006

APPLIES TO

Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Service Pack 2

This article was previously published under Q274467

BUG #: 57941 (SQLBUG_70)

SYMPTOMS

Queries that contain a TOP N PERCENT argument within a subquery may fail to run. For example, the following query:

SELECT * FROM employee
WHERE hire_date > ALL (SELECT TOP 7 PERCENT 1 FROM employee)

returns this error message:

Server: Msg 8623, Level 16, State 2, Line 1
Internal Query Processor Error: The query processor could not produce a query plan.

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: regression, subqueries, sp3

Keywords: kbbug kbfix KB274467

Microsoft KB Archive/274467

FIX: Queries with TOP N PERCENT in Subquery May Fail with Error Message 8623

SYMPTOMS

STATUS