INFO: Underlying OLE and OLEDB Provider Errors Exposed via ADO

Last reviewed: October 10, 1997
Article ID: Q168354
The information in this article applies to:
  • ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) to be used from:

- Microsoft Active Server Pages, versions 1.0, 1.0b

  -  Microsoft Transaction Server 1.0
  -  Microsoft Visual C++, 32-bit Editions, versions 4.2, 5.0
  -  Microsoft Visual InterDev, version 1.0
  -  Microsoft Visual Basic Professional and Enterprise Editions
      for Windows, versions 4.0, 5.0
  -  Microsoft Visual J++, versions 1.0, 1.1

SUMMARY

ActiveX Data Objects (ADO) processes errors by raising them, if possible, into the Errors Collection. The Errors Collection contains one Error object for each error ADO was able to process from it's underlying provider. Often the value for these errors is a numeric HRESULT raised by a provider such as OLE-DB or even OLE itself. Because of these underlying components, they and their HRESULTS are not documented within the ADO online documentation.

This article presents a list of HRESULTS that may be raised to ADO from the more common sources.

MORE INFORMATION

Two values, One HRESULT

Depending upon the development environment, and the mechanism used to trap error conditions, you may see HRESULTS in one of two forms:

   0x80004005  (hex)
   -2147467259 (long)

They are the same value, just cast differently. In this case they are the E_FAIL value, which may indicate that neither OLE-DB nor it's underlying provider was able to positively identify the source of the error.

Frequently Encountered HRESULTS from OLE

This list was compiled from the Winerror.h file, which ships with the Win32 SDK. This list is actually a sub-set of a much more complete set of OLE errors. However, this is the set this most likely to be raised by OLE or OLE-DB to ADO.

   Unsigned     Signed
     HRESULT   Hex HRESULT                    Description
   ----------  -----------  ----------------------------------------------
   0x80000001  -2147483647  Not implemented
   0x80000002  -2147483646  Ran out of memory
   0x80000003  -2147483645  One or more arguments are invalid
   0x80000004  -2147483644  No such interface supported
   0x80000005  -2147483643  Invalid pointer
   0x80000006  -2147483642  Invalid handle
   0x80000007  -2147483641  Operation aborted
   0x80000008  -2147483640  Unspecified error
   0x80000009  -2147483639  General access denied error
   0x8000000A  -2147483638  The data necessary to complete this operation
                            is not yet available.
   0x80004001  -2147467263  Not implemented
   0x80004002  -2147467262  No such interface supported
   0x80004003  -2147467261  Invalid pointer
   0x80004004  -2147467260  Operation aborted
   0x80004005  -2147467259  Unspecified error
   0x80004006  -2147467258  Thread local storage failure
   0x80004007  -2147467257  Get shared memory allocator failure
   0x80004008  -2147467256  Get memory allocator failure
   0x80004009  -2147467255  Unable to initialize class cache
   0x8000400A  -2147467254  Unable to initialize RPC services
   0x8000400B  -2147467253  Cannot set thread local storage channel control
   0x8000400C  -2147467252  Could not allocate thread local storage channel
                            control
   0x8000400D  -2147467251  The user supplied memory allocator is
                            unacceptable
   0x8000400E  -2147467250  The OLE service mutex already exists
   0x8000400F  -2147467249  The OLE service file mapping already exists
   0x80004010  -2147467248  Unable to map view of file for OLE service
   0x80004011  -2147467247  Failure attempting to launch OLE service
   0x80004012  -2147467246  There was an attempt to call CoInitialize a
                            second time while single threaded
   0x80004013  -2147467245  A Remote activation was necessary but was not
                            allowed
   0x80004014  -2147467244  A Remote activation was necessary but the
                            server name provided was invalid
   0x80004015  -2147467243  The class is configured to run as a security
                            id different from the caller
   0x80004016  -2147467242  Use of Ole1 services requiring DDE windows is
                            disabled
   0x80004017  -2147467241  A RunAs specification must be
                            <domain name>\<user name> or simply <user name>
   0x80004018  -2147467240  The server process could not be started.  The
                            pathname may be incorrect.
   0x80004019  -2147467239  The server process could not be started as the
                            configured identity.  The pathname may be
                            incorrect or unavailable.
   0x8000401A  -2147467238  The server process could not be started because
                            the configured identity is incorrect.  Check
                            the username and password.
   0x8000401B  -2147467237  The client is not allowed to launch this
                            server.
   0x8000401C  -2147467236  The service providing this server could not
                            be started.
   0x8000401D  -2147467235  This computer was unable to communicate with
                            the computer providing the server.
   0x8000401E  -2147467234  The server did not respond after being
                            launched.
   0x8000401F  -2147467233  The registration information for this server
                            is inconsistent or incomplete.
   0x80004020  -2147467232  The registration information for this interface
                            is inconsistent or incomplete.
   0x80004021  -2147467231  The operation attempted is not supported.
   0x8000FFFF  -2147418113  Catastrophic failure
   0x80070005  -2147024891  General access denied error
   0x80070006  -2147024890  Invalid handle
   0x8007000E  -2147024882  Ran out of memory
   0x80070057  -2147024809  One or more arguments are invalid

Debugging HRESULTS from OLE-DB

Some OLE-DB error messages, such as 80040e37 (Table 'x' does not exist) are fairly obvious whether using ADO or OLE-DB. Others such as 0x80040E06 (Invalid chapter) are not as clear to an ADO developer. You can use the ITest/ISpy tools that ship with the OLE-DB SDK to spy on the OLE-DB calls. ITest/ISpy are simliar to ODBC Spy and you can use them for complex debugging in ADO/DB applications.

This list was compiled from the Oledberr.h file, which ships with the OLE-DB SDK:

   Unsigned     Signed
     HRESULT   Hex HRESULT                    Description
   ----------  -----------  ----------------------------------------------
   0x80040E00  -2147217920  Invalid accessor
   0x80040E01  -2147217919  Creating another row would have exceeded the
                            total number of active rows supported by the
                            rowset
   0x80040E02  -2147217918  Unable to write with a read-only accessor
   0x80040E03  -2147217917  Given values violate the database schema
   0x80040E04  -2147217916  Invalid row handle
   0x80040E05  -2147217915  An object was open
   0x80040E06  -2147217914  Invalid chapter
   0x80040E07  -2147217913  A literal value in the command could not be
                            converted to the correct type due to a reason
                            other than data overflow
   0x80040E08  -2147217912  Invalid binding info
   0x80040E09  -2147217911  Permission denied
   0x80040E0A  -2147217910  Specified column does not contain bookmarks or
                            chapters
   0x80040E0B  -2147217909  Some cost limits were rejected
   0x80040E0C  -2147217908  No command has been set for the command object
   0x80040E0D  -2147217907  Unable to find a query plan within the given
                            cost limit
   0x80040E0E  -2147217906  Invalid bookmark
   0x80040E0F  -2147217905  Invalid lock mode
   0x80040E10  -2147217904  No value given for one or more required
                            parameters
   0x80040E11  -2147217903  Invalid column ID
   0x80040E12  -2147217902  Invalid ratio
   0x80040E13  -2147217901  Invalid value
   0x80040E14  -2147217900  The command contained one or more errors
   0x80040E15  -2147217899  The executing command cannot be canceled
   0x80040E16  -2147217898  The provider does not support the specified
                            dialect
   0x80040E17  -2147217897  A data source with the specified name already
                            exists
   0x80040E18  -2147217896  The rowset was built over a live data feed and
                            cannot be restarted
   0x80040E19  -2147217895  No key matching the described characteristics
                            could be found within the current range
   0x80040E1A  -2147217894  Ownership of this tree has been given to the
                            provider
   0x80040E1B  -2147217893  The provider is unable to determine identity
                            for newly inserted rows
   0x80040E1C  -2147217892  No nonzero weights specified for any goals
                            supported, so goal was rejected; current goal
                            was not changed
   0x80040E1D  -2147217891  Requested conversion is not supported
   0x80040E1E  -2147217890  lRowsOffset would position you past either end
                            of the rowset, regardless of the cRows value
                            specified; cRowsObtained is 0
   0x80040E1F  -2147217889  Information was requested for a query, and the
                            query was not set
   0x80040E20  -2147217888  Provider called a method from IRowsetNotify in
                            the consumer and NT
   0x80040E21  -2147217887  Errors occurred
   0x80040E22  -2147217886  A non-NULL controlling IUnknown was specified
                            and the object being created does not support
                            aggregation
   0x80040E23  -2147217885  A given HROW referred to a hard- or soft-
                            deleted row
   0x80040E24  -2147217884  The rowset does not support fetching backwards
   0x80040E25  -2147217883  All HROWs must be released before new ones can
                            be obtained
   0x80040E26  -2147217882  One of the specified storage flags was not
                            supported
   0x80040E28  -2147217880  The specified status flag was neither
                            DBCOLUMNSTATUS_OK nor DBCOLUMNSTATUS_ISNULL
   0x80040E29  -2147217879  The rowset cannot scroll backwards
   0x80040E2A  -2147217878  Invalid region handle
   0x80040E2B  -2147217877  The specified set of rows was not contiguous to
                            or overlapping the rows in the specified watch
                            region
   0x80040E2C  -2147217876  A transition from ALL* to MOVE* or EXTEND* was
                            specified
   0x80040E2D  -2147217875  The specified region is not a proper subregion
                            of the region identified by the given watch
                            region handle
   0x80040E2E  -2147217874  The provider does not support multi-statement
                            commands
   0x80040E2F  -2147217873  A specified value violated the integrity
                            constraints for a column or table
   0x80040E30  -2147217872  The given type name was unrecognized
   0x80040E31  -2147217871  Execution aborted because a resource limit has
                            been reached; no results have been returned
   0x80040E32  -2147217870  Cannot clone a command object whose command
                            tree contains a rowset or rowsets
   0x80040E33  -2147217869  Cannot represent the current tree as text
   0x80040E34  -2147217868  The specified index already exists
   0x80040E35  -2147217867  The specified index does not exist
   0x80040E36  -2147217866  The specified index was in use
   0x80040E37  -2147217865  The specified table does not exist
   0x80040E38  -2147217864  The rowset was using optimistic concurrency and
                            the value of a column has been changed since
                            it was last read
   0x80040E39  -2147217863  Errors were detected during the copy
   0x80040E3A  -2147217862  A specified precision was invalid
   0x80040E3B  -2147217861  A specified scale was invalid
   0x80040E3C  -2147217860  Invalid table ID
   0x80040E3D  -2147217859  A specified type was invalid
   0x80040E3E  -2147217858  A column ID was occurred more than once in the
                            specification
   0x80040E3F  -2147217857  The specified table already exists
   0x80040E40  -2147217856  The specified table was in use
   0x80040E41  -2147217855  The specified locale ID was not supported
   0x80040E42  -2147217854  The specified record number is invalid
   0x80040E43  -2147217853  Although the bookmark was validly formed, no
                            row could be found to match it
   0x80040E44  -2147217852  The value of a property was invalid
   0x80040E45  -2147217851  The rowset was not chaptered
   0x80040E46  -2147217850  Invalid accessor
   0x80040E47  -2147217849  Invalid storage flags
   0x80040E48  -2147217848  By-ref accessors are not supported by this
                            provider
   0x80040E49  -2147217847  Null accessors are not supported by this
                            provider
   0x80040E4A  -2147217846  The command was not prepared
   0x80040E4B  -2147217845  The specified accessor was not a parameter
                            accessor
   0x80040E4C  -2147217844  The given accessor was write-only
   0x80040E4D  -2147217843  Authentication failed
   0x80040E4E  -2147217842  The change was canceled during notification; no
                            columns are changed
   0x80040E4F  -2147217841  The rowset was single-chaptered and the chapter
                            was not released
   0x80040E50  -2147217840  Invalid source handle
   0x80040E51  -2147217839  The provider cannot derive parameter info and
                         SetParameterInfo has not been called
   0x80040E52  -2147217838  The data source object is already initialized
   0x80040E53  -2147217837  The provider does not support this method
   0x80040E54  -2147217836  The number of rows with pending changes has
                            exceeded the set limit
   0x80040E55  -2147217835  The specified column did not exist
   0x80040E56  -2147217834  There are pending changes on a row with a
                            reference count of zero
   0x80040E57  -2147217833  A literal value in the command overflowed the
                            range of the type of the associated column
   0x80040E58  -2147217832  The supplied HRESULT was invalid
   0x80040E59  -2147217831  The supplied LookupID was invalid
   0x80040E5A  -2147217830  The supplied DynamicErrorID was invalid
   0x80040E5B  -2147217829  Unable to get visible data for a newly-inserted
                            row that has not yet been updated
   0x80040E5C  -2147217828  Invalid conversion flag
   0x80040E5D  -2147217827  The given parameter name was unrecognized
   0x80040E5E  -2147217826  Multiple storage objects can not be open
                            simultaneously
   0x00040EC0       265920  Fetching requested number of rows would have
                            exceeded total number of active rows supported
                            by the rowset
   0x00040EC1       265921  One or more column types are incompatible;
                            conversion errors will occur during copying
   0x00040EC2       265922  Parameter type information has been overridden
                            by caller
   0x00040EC3       265923  Skipped bookmark for deleted or non-member row
   0x00040EC4       265924  Errors found in validating tree
   0x00040EC5       265925  There are no more rowsets
   0x00040EC6       265926  Reached start or end of rowset or chapter
   0x00040EC7       265927  The provider re-executed the command
   0x00040EC8       265928  Variable data buffer full
   0x00040EC9       265929  There are no more results
   0x00040ECA       265930  Server cannot release or downgrade a lock until
                            the end of the transaction
   0x00040ECB       265931  Specified weight was not supported or exceeded
                            the supported limit and was set to 0 or the
                            supported limit
   0x00040ECD       265933  Input dialect was ignored and text was returned
                            in different dialect
   0x00040ECE       265934  Consumer is uninterested in receiving further
                            notification calls for this phase
   0x00040ECF       265935  Consumer is uninterested in receiving further
                            notification calls for this reason
   0x00040ED1       265937  In order to reposition to the start of the
                            rowset, the provider had to reexecute the
                            query; either the order of the columns changed
                            or columns were added to or removed from the
                            rowset
   0x00040ED2       265938  The method had some errors; errors have been
                            returned in the error array
   0x00040ED3       265939  Invalid row handle
   0x00040ED4       265940  A given HROW referred to a hard-deleted row
   0x00040ED5       265941  The provider was unable to keep track of all
                            the changes; the client must refetch the data
                            associated with the watch region using another
                            method
   0x00040ED6       265942  Execution stopped because a resource limit has
                            been reached; results obtained so far have been
                            returned but execution cannot be resumed
   0x00040ED8       265944  A lock was upgraded from the value specified
   0x00040ED9       265945  One or more properties were changed as allowed
                            by provider
   0x00040EDA       265946  Errors occurred
   0x00040EDB       265947  A specified parameter was invalid
   0x00040EDC       265948  Updating this row caused more than one row to
                            be updated in the data source

(c) Microsoft Corporation 1997, All Rights Reserved. Contributions by Don Willits, Microsoft Corporation
Keywords          : adoall adoengall adoengdb adoiis adoother adovb adovc adovj
Issue type        : kbinfo


================================================================================


THE INFORMATION PROVIDED IN THE MICROSOFT KNOWLEDGE BASE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. MICROSOFT DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT SHALL MICROSOFT CORPORATION OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, LOSS OF BUSINESS PROFITS OR SPECIAL DAMAGES, EVEN IF MICROSOFT CORPORATION OR ITS SUPPLIERS HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES. SOME STATES DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES SO THE FOREGOING LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY.

Last reviewed: October 10, 1997
© 1998 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. Terms of Use.