Spotlight causes stack trace in Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) 15.0.3 with external error: "The (4279500)

ASE 15.0.3 running on Windows platforms may fail with an access violation error. This error  occurs at the calibration and post calibration stage when a connection is first established to the ASE server.
You will find the below in the stack trace dump

09:39:50.847: clientmsg: ct_cmd_alloc(): user api layer: external error: The connection has been marked dead.
09:39:50.847: RunQuery: ct_cmd_allocA failed
09:39:50.847: ----- set rowcount 0
09:39:50.847: clientmsg: ct_cmd_alloc(): user api layer: external error: The connection has been marked dead.
09:39:50.847: RunQuery: ct_cmd_allocA failed
09:39:50.862: ----- exec sp_sls_E_devices_m