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Re: SS 2008: Rethrowing User-Defined Error Codes FULLY

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From	Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>
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Subject	Re: SS 2008: Rethrowing User-Defined Error Codes FULLY
Date	Fri, 13 May 2011 23:27:09 +0200
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Gene Wirchenko (genew@ocis.net) writes:
>      Erland!  You are not doing your part!  You were supposed to tell
> what I was missing.  

As a matter of fact, I did! I told you were missing the most recent 
version of SQL Server, if only in beta. :-)

> I fight with the language a lot, because it violates the Law of Least
> Astonishment so much.  

Sometimes I think that maximising the astonishment has been a prime
design goal of the language.

>      I wish that there was something like #include and #define so I
> could define mnemonics for the errors I wish to define.  I have
> looked, but I did not find anything.

It is not available in the product as such, but you should be able 
to roll your own with help of the preprocessor from C++ if you have
Visual Studio.

As a matter of fact, in the system I spend most of my time with, we
do use a preprocessor. Not the one from C++, but a homebrew. It's
part of my toolset, AbaPerls, which you can find at 
http://www.sommarskog.se/AbaPerls/index.html. But you would not 
start using AbaPerls only to get a preprocessor.

>      That is good in general, but I have a gotcha.  <sigh>  I will not
> be able to use it for the company that the main app is for.  They will
> stick with Windows XP for quite some time.  SS 2011 will not run on
> XP.

What can I say... The 64-bit support for XP is not very good, and
there are a few things missing. But not much. And I much rather
do my daily chores on XP than on Vista or Win7.

-- 
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

Links for SQL Server Books Online:
SQL 2008: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/cc514207.aspx
SQL 2005: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/bb895970.aspx

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SS 2008: Rethrowing User-Defined Error Codes *FULLY* Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-05-12 19:35 -0700
  Re: SS 2008: Rethrowing User-Defined Error Codes *FULLY* Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2011-05-13 07:43 +0000
    Re: SS 2008: Rethrowing User-Defined Error Codes *FULLY* Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-05-13 11:22 -0700
      Re: SS 2008: Rethrowing User-Defined Error Codes *FULLY* Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2011-05-13 23:27 +0200

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