FIX: You may receive unexpected results when you use a text column and an OR operator to combine criteria from multiple subqueries (319610)

SYMPTOMS

A query may return inconsistent results (more than one instance of each row) if a query retrieves a text column and the query uses an OR operator to retrieve criteria from multiple subqueries.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

290211 INF: How To Obtain the Latest SQL Server 2000 Service Pack

NOTE: The following hotfix was created before the release of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3.

The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

   Date          Time          Version    Size              File name 
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   13-MAR-2002   10:28:09 PM   8.00.597   7,446,609 bytes   Sqlservr.exe

NOTE: Because of file dependencies, the most recent hotfix or feature that contains the files may also contain additional files.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
This problem was first corrected in Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3.