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Provides the error message for the current error, or for a specified SQLSTATE or SQLCODE value.
ERRORMSG ( [ sqlstate | sqlcode ] )
sqlstate: string
sqlcode: integer
sqlstate The SQLSTATE value for which the error message is to be returned.
sqlcode The SQLCODE value for which the error message is to be returned.
The following statement returns the error message for SQLCODE -813:
select errormsg( -813 )
A string containing the error message. If no argument is supplied, the error message for the current state is supplied. Any substitutions (such as table names and column names) are made.
If an argument is supplied, the error message for the supplied SQLSTATE or SQLCODE is returned, with no substitutions. Table names and column names are supplied as placeholders ('???').
The ERRORMSG function returns SQL Anywhere and Sybase IQ error messages.
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