PHP / PDO / MSSQL how to get error informations?

Question

I\'ve done a lot of searching, but can\'t find anything about my issue. I\'m using PDO with Driver PDO_DBLIB to access a MS SQL database. I generally u

Answer 1

SQL Server Error Messages

error 241: Syntax error converting datetime from character string

This format works for me: date("Ymd H:i:s");

Answer 2

To find the error message:

-- SQL 2005+
select * from sys.messages where message_id = 241
-- SQL 2000
select * from sysmessages where error = 241

It appears that PDO is removing the actual error message text for some reason, but since the documentation says that PDO_DBLIB is experimental, this may simply be a bug.

You should also be aware that DBLIB has been deprecated by Microsoft since SQL 2005, so you should almost certainly use a different library for connecting to MSSQL.