A severe error occurred on the current command. The results, if any, should be discarded.

Question

I'm getting

"A severe error occurred on the current command. The results, if any, should be discarded."

I'm using SQL 2005 SP 3 (9.00.4035)

I have a stored proc which saves a record. As far as I can tell this error gets thrown when that procedure gets called too many times in quick succession, or maybe simultaneously by different threads

The proc is very simple, it does a BEGIN TRY.. BEGIN TRAN... IF NOT EXISTS INSERT .. ELSE UPDATE .. COMMIT TRAN .. END TRY

No SQLDUMP file gets created

Nothing gets written into ERRORLOG

It is a Severity 11 error. The SqlException does not contain State or Number

Answer 1

There is an hot fix avaliable by microsoft http://support.microsoft.com/kb/910416