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Troubleshooting for SQL Server 4014 error message

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YueJ_7
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Mar 30, 2022
Some times you may observe 4014 error messages in SQL Server errorlog, like below Error: 4014, Severity:20, State: 11. A fatal error occurred while reading the input stream from the network. The s...
Updated Nov 09, 2023
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Robin Shanab
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Apr 19, 2022

Hi Yue Ji,

This fatal error suggests that something is wrong with the network which is causing network packets to drop. The error which is captured in the SQL Server error log can be due to different reasons. 

 

You can check this reference: https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/3538/fixing-sql-server-fatal-error-4014/ 

 

Regards,

Robin