A severity level is associated with each numbered error message. It indicates the type of problem Adaptive Server has encountered. For more information about severity levels, refer to “Severity Levels” in the System Administration Guide.
Inform the Sybase System Administrator whenever errors with severity levels over 16 occur. The System Administrator is responsible for resolving them and tracking their frequency. The System Administrator should monitor all errors that generate severity levels of 17 through 26. To assist the System Administrator in resolving problems, print out a hard copy of the error log, which contains the back trace from the fatal error.
Messages that ordinarily have severities greater than
16 will show severity 16 when they are raised by dbcc checktable or dbcc
checkalloc so that checks will continue with the next
object.
