FIX: Handled Access Violation on INSERT Through Cursor (263649)

SYMPTOMS

Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 might generate a handled Access Violation (AV), when all of the following conditions are met:

You use a server based cursor.
You use a keyset cursor.
You insert data into a table.
The first INSERT inserts data into all the columns, except one. The second INSERT inserts data into all of the columns.

The following error message might occur on the client:

ODBC: Msg 0, Level 19, State 1 [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]SqlDumpExceptionHandler: Process 7 generated fatal exception 0000005 EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION. SQL Server is terminating this process.
Connection Broken

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, try either of the following:

Use a client based cursor.

-or-
Use a dynamic cursor.

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.