|  | Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 06/19/07 21:21 
TSalm (tsalm@free.fr) writes:> After sending a request, I would get the possible error message.
 > Not the code @@error, nor the exact content of sysmessages, but the
 > message like it could be in the log file.
 
 "Sending a request", that sounds like you are issuing a call from a
 client program. In that case you should be able to pick up the error
 message. If you tell which client API you are using, I may even be
 able to tell you how.
 
 If you mean in a stored procedure, it depends on which version of SQL
 Server you are on. If you are on SQL 2000, the answer is: you can't.
 
 If you are on SQL 2005, you can use the new function error_message()
 and its sisters: error_severity(), error_number(), error_state(),
 error_procedure() and error_line(). But they only return data, if you
 are in a CATCH handler, or a procedure called from a catch handler:
 
 BEGIN TRY
 -- Do something bad here
 END TRY
 BEGIN CATCH
 SELECT error_message()
 END CATCH
 
 
 --
 Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se
 
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