When enabling site news on the front page, an 'Error reading from database' message is displayed.

Steps to reproduce:

• Log in to the Moodle site as administrator
• Navigate to Settings->Site Administration->Front Page->Front Page Settings
• From the 'Front Page' drop down lists, select 'Site News' and save

Expected: a list of site news items

Got: an 'Error reading from database' message

Debug info is as follows:

Debug info: SQLState: 42000<br>
Error Code: 8156<br>
Message: [Microsoft][SQL Server Native Client 10.0][SQL Server]The column 'name' was specified multiple times for 'q'.<br>

SELECT , name, timemodified, usermodified, groupid, timestart, timeend, firstname, lastname, email, picture, imagealt FROM (SELECT TOP 9223372036854775806 ROW_NUMBER() OVER(ORDER BY modified DESC) AS sqlsrvrownumber, *, name, timemodified, usermodified, groupid, timestart, timeend, firstname, lastname, email, picture, imagealt FROM (SELECT p., d.name, d.timemodified, d.usermodified, d.groupid, d.timestart, d.timeend,
u.firstname, u.lastname, u.email, u.picture, u.imagealt
FROM mdl_forum_discussions d
JOIN mdl_forum_posts p ON p.discussion = d.id
JOIN mdl_user u ON p.userid = u.id

WHERE d.forum = '4' AND p.parent = 0

) AS q) AS q WHERE q.sqlsrvrownumber > 0 AND q.sqlsrvrownumber <= 3
[array (
0 => '4',
)]
Stack trace:

• line 391 of \lib\dml\moodle_database.php: dml_read_exception thrown
• line 252 of \lib\dml\sqlsrv_native_moodle_database.php: call to moodle_database->query_end()
• line 363 of \lib\dml\sqlsrv_native_moodle_database.php: call to sqlsrv_native_moodle_database->query_end()
• line 761 of \lib\dml\sqlsrv_native_moodle_database.php: call to sqlsrv_native_moodle_database->do_query()
• line 905 of \lib\dml\sqlsrv_native_moodle_database.php: call to sqlsrv_native_moodle_database->get_recordset_sql()
• line 2596 of \mod\forum\lib.php: call to sqlsrv_native_moodle_database->get_records_sql()
• line 5084 of \mod\forum\lib.php: call to forum_get_discussions()
• line 175 of \index.php: call to forum_print_latest_discussions()