Confluence Cloud Migration Assistant 2.4.2 on MSSQL Server can flood logs and cause the instance to crash

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Summary

Confluence Cloud Migration Assistant version 2.4.2 on a Confluence Server (or DC) instance that uses MSSQL Server as a database causes the app to flood the logs with DB schema error entries.

Environment

Confluence 7.0.2

Migration Cloud Plugin 2.4.2

Database Name: Microsoft SQL Server Database Version: 14.00.1000

Database Driver Name: com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver Database Driver Version: 6.3.0.0

Diagnosis

The following log entries are observed:

1 2 2019-12-13 09:34:13,801 ERROR [Caesium-1-3] [migration.agent.queue.QueueBroker] error An error occurred when getting the next batch for consumer type: CONFLUENCE_EXPORT. Message: org.hibernate.tool.schema.spi.SchemaManagementException: Schema-validation: wrong column type encountered in column [USER_KEY] in table [`AO_92296B_AORECENTLY_VIEWED`]; found [nvarchar (Types#NVARCHAR)], but expecting [varchar(255) (Types#VARCHAR)] com.atlassian.util.concurrent.LazyReference$InitializationException: org.hibernate.tool.schema.spi.SchemaManagementException: Schema-validation: wrong column type encountered in column [USER_KEY] in table [`AO_92296B_AORECENTLY_VIEWED`]; found [nvarchar (Types#NVARCHAR)], but expecting [varchar(255) (Types#VARCHAR)]

Cause

Confluence Cloud Migration Assistance on version 2.4.2 on a server (or DC) instance doesn't work well with MSSQL databases.

Solution

Either upgrade the Confluence Cloud Migration Assistant to version 2.4.3 and upwards or disable it.

Updated on March 6, 2025

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