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Microsoft SQL Server | 10965988
KB4040519 - FIX: Automatic seeding in Availability Groups randomly causes error 41169 in SQL Server 2016 or 2017 - Microsoft Support
Last update date:
7/21/2023
Affected products:
SQL Server 2016 Enterprise Core - duplicate (do not use)
SQL Server 2016 Enterprise - duplicate (do not use)
SQL Server 2016 Developer - duplicate (do not use)
SQL Server 2016 Standard - duplicate (do not use)
SQL Server 2017 on Windows (all editions)
SQL Server 2017 on Linux (all editions)
Affected releases:
build lower than 14.0.3006.16
Fixed releases:
14.0.3006.16
Description:
Symptoms
You set AlwaysOn Availability Group automatic seeding in an instance of Microsoft SQL Server 2016 or 2017. After you add the database to the Availability Group, you receive an error message that resembles the following in the instance that's holding the secondary replica: Error 41169: An error occurred while attempting to access the availability group database with ID '%.*ls' in availability group '%.*ls'. The availability database is not found in the availability group configuration. Verify that the availability group name and availability database ID are correct, then retry the command.
Cause
This issue occurs because automatic seeding may randomly fail to initialize the availability database.
Resolution
This fix is included in the following cumulative updates for SQL Server: Cumulative Update 1 for SQL Server 2017 Cumulative Update 5 for SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1
About SQL Server builds
Each new build for SQL Server contains all the hotfixes and all the security fixes that were included with the previous build. We recommend that you install the latest cumulative updates for SQL Server: Latest cumulative update for SQL Server 2017 latest build for SQL Server 2016
Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
References
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