Symptom
Under rare circumstances, the database server may crash or return assertion error 106900 "Expression value unexpectedly NULL in read" for a complex query that uses Prefilter operators and outer joins. The problem happens if the query references a view that contains a type casting of a constant in its select list, for example "cast(41 as numeric(2)) Col2" in below view definition:
create or replace view V1 as
select distinct
T1.b1 as Col1,
cast(41 as numeric(2)) Col2
from T1 left outer join T2
on T1.a1 = T2.a2
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Environment
SAP SQL Anywhere 17
Keywords
SQA, SQAny, SQLAnywhere, data type, column, QTS , KBA , BC-SYB-SQA-OTH , SQL Anywhere - other (install, docs, etc.) , Problem
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