FIX: Error Message 8624 "Internal SQL Server" Occurs with Cold Index Retrieval OLE DB Provider (309568)

SYMPTOMS

When you perform a query against a linked server, this error message may occur:

Server: Msg 8624, Level 16, State 25, Line 7
Internal SQL Server error.

CAUSE

The error message can occur when you use an Indexed Access OLE DB Driver to execute a query against a Cold Index Retrieval Linked Server, which uses variables in the query's criteria.

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

Hotfix

NOTE: The following hotfix was created prior to Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 2.

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

Date          Time          Version    Size              File name     
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09-OCT-2001   10:28:09 PM   8.00.455   7,299,640 Bytes   Sqlservr.exe

WORKAROUND

To work around this problem, replace the variables with literal values.

If variables are required, concatenate them into the statement. Then use the EXECUTE statement or the sp_executesql stored procedure to execute the statement.

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 2.