Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Gene Wirchenko Newsgroups: comp.databases.ms-sqlserver,microsoft.public.sqlserver.programming Subject: Re: Constraint Errors: What Blew Up? Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 17:00:07 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 45 Message-ID: <5t9or7deuutvog50c4nnhiad046e62p7tr@4ax.com> References: <8khlr79ocjoqh62jhp6ebup8qns4j5d5fp@4ax.com> <7uknr7d6cbm5gqflccvhlq9ocdeqrd0ada@4ax.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="wKah3EH8kutwAOV6+9FiEQ"; logging-data="7354"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18kHwJyg/xUygrHi9N66nUiFihGNsHX1DI=" X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 4.2/32.1118 Cancel-Lock: sha1:cB25S694DxPFQ1Pt2b8ktOc+c1Q= Xref: csiph.com comp.databases.ms-sqlserver:1068 On Tue, 22 May 2012 23:51:18 +0200, Erland Sommarskog wrote: >Gene Wirchenko (genew@ocis.net) writes: >> "try" is the word. Apparently, a Windows Live id is required and >> one has already been created for my E-mail address. I might have >> tried to create one years ago and had it fail somehow. > >So register a new Live ID. The username there does not have to be a >real mail address - my Live ID is not an existing mail address and >has never been. > >You can still setup a profile and have updates on the Connect item >sent to your mail address. Which can be different from the Live ID. >Or try your mail address and click "Forgot your password?". Some Websites are decidedly unfriendly when they fail. I had not gotten a success message. >> Since I can not post to the feedback, could you please post the >> following on my behalf? > >It has happened that I filed Connect items on behalf of other people, >but this has mainly been bugs where I also did some part of the >analysis. > >This is a feature request, and not one that I would rank as terribly >important, at least not compared to all other things I think are >important, and they still refuse to implement for some reason. The more things accessible by a good interface, the better. Having to scrape error messages is prone to error. >Also, wouldn't a better solution be the ability to attach an error >message to the constraint definition? And what happens to the error message to get it sent back to the front-end? At some point, it has to be specified that this is done, and that is where the function would be called. Or I am missing something. Sincerely, Gene Wirchenko