Article ID: 278421
Article Last Modified on 3/14/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q278421
BUG #: 57729 (SQLBUG_70)
SYMPTOMS
A Transact-SQL SELECT statement, which has a large number of elements in the IN clause, may fail with a STACK OVERFLOW exception. In some cases, this problem may cause the client application to disconnect.
WORKAROUND
To work around this problem:
- Reduce the number of elements in the IN clause.
-or-
- Rewrite the query to not use an IN clause.
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.
MORE INFORMATION
With the fix for this problem, a stack overflow exception may still appear in the SQL Server error log. Furthermore, the user may also encounter the following error message:
However, the client application's connection is not dropped under any scenario with this fix. In some cases, the query runs successfully, where in the past a stack overflow exception occurred.
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