Symptoms
A SELECT statement may generate an exception that causes the SQL Server instance to terminate unexpectedly if all of the following conditions are true: The SELECT statement retrieves a computed column.The computed column references a user defined function (UDF).The UDF accesses table data.An implicit data type conversion is necessary for one of the UDF parameters. No stack dump or other message related to the exception is written to the SQL Server error log.
Resolution
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Microsoft SQL Server 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
290211?(http://support.microsoft.com/kb/290211/EN-US/) INF: How To Obtain the Latest SQL Server 2000 Service PackNOTE: The following hotfix was created before the release of Microsoft SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 3.
The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:
SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 1
This hotfix build is designed to be applied on a server that is running SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 1:

VersionFile nameDescription————————————————8.00.0469Sqlservr.exeSP1-based hotfix SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 2
This hotfix build is designed to be applied on a server running SQL Server 2000 Service Pack 2:

VersionFile nameDescription————————————————8.00.0552Sqlservr.exeSP2-based hotfix NOTE: Because of file dependencies, the most recent hotfix or feature that contains the files may also contain additional files.