Chapter 11: Diagnosing System Problems

Variables in error message text

Table 11-1 explains the symbols that appear in the text provided with each error message explanation:

**Table 11-1: Error text symbols key**
Symbol	Stands for
%d, %D	Decimal number
%x,%X,%.*x,%lx, %04x, %08lx	Hexadecimal number
%s	Null-terminated string
%.s, %s, %*.s	String, usually the name of a particular database object
%S_type	Adaptive Server-defined structure
%c	Single character
%f	Floating-point number
%ld	Long decimal
%lf	Double floating-point number