SQL Server Error Detail

SQLOLEDB defines the provider-specific error interface ISQLServerErrorInfo. The interface returns more detail about a Microsoft® SQL Server™ error and is valuable when command execution or rowset operations fail.

There are two ways to obtain access to ISQLServerErrorInfo interface.

The consumer may call IErrorRecords::GetCustomerErrorObject (no need to obtain ISQLErrorInfo) to obtain an ISQLServerErrorInfo pointer (as shown in the code fragment below).  Both ISQLErrorInfo and ISQLServerErrorInfo are custom OLE DB error objects, with ISQLServerErrorInfo being the interface to use to obtain information of server errors including such details as procedure name and line numbers.

//Get SQLServer custom error object

if(FAILED(hr=pIErrorRecords->GetCustomErrorObject(
                               nRec,
                               IID_ISQLServerErrorInfo,
                              (IUnknown**)&pISQLServerErrorErrorInfo)))
    

Another way to get an ISQLServerErrorInfo pointer is to call the QueryInterface method on an already obtained ISQLErrorInfo pointer.  Do note that because ISQLServerErrorInfo contains a superset of the information available from ISQLErrorInfo, it makes sense to go directly to ISQLServerErrorInfo through GetCustomerErrorObject.

The ISQLServerErrorInfo interface exposes one member function, GetErrorInfo. The function returns a pointer to an SSERRORINFO structure and a pointer to a string buffer. Both pointers reference memory the consumer must deallocate by using the IMalloc::Free method.

SSERRORINFO structure members are interpreted by the consumer as follows.

See Also

RAISERROR