>>Hi, We are consistently receiving the following error in the event viewer (and log):
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SqlDumpExceptionHandler: Process 14 generated fatal exception c0000005 EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION. SQL Server is terminating this process.

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>>We are seeing no problem running applications or in normal database use. Any ideas what would be causing this?
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>>TIA,
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>We had this problem (Access violation errors) whith DTS packages running overnight. This was on the list of things solved by SQL7 SP3 so we applied it and we haven't experienced it ever since.
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>GPF's are hard to track so we went for the easiest route that worked. It wasn't preventing the packages from running so it wasn't too big of a deal.
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>What version of SQL & SP are you on?

we found the issue - related to orphaned users in sysusers as we moved some databases around. I found the info on the service pack, but we already at at the latest - thanks!