Error 803

Severity Level 20

Message Text

Unable to place buffer 0x%lx holding logical page %ld in sdes for object '%.*s'žeither there is no room in sdes or buffer already in requested slot.

Explanation

Under certain rare circumstances, a select-based insert of the following form:

insert into tblDestinationData
select tblSourceData.* from tblSourceData

on a table with two or more nonclustered indexes can result in an 803 session descriptors (sdes) error condition. This error is dependent on the data in the indexes at the time the operation was attempted.

Action

This condition can generally be corrected by dropping all nonclustered indexes in the table, and then retrying the option. If the action succeeds, the indexes can then be re-created.