We had this same problem on our site yesterday. We're running MySQL on Windows 2003.
There is a tracker bug posted, http://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-10090 but nothing from the Moodle team yet.
Roles and permissions
Urgent help needed : Query failed in load_user_capability.
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