CDbException

After my last post's explanation on how to retrieve OLE DB error information, here's a first implementation approach (sample code here). To retrieve the error information you just need to create an instance of the CDbException class, using the HRESULT value that you used to detect the error. Right now this class provides a minimal interface to retrieveing error information and will be updated in future releases. Nevertheless, you can now get a textual description that you can associate to the HRESULT value when reporting back the error to the user.

These errors tend to be very descriptive about what cause them, but there are some exceptions. For instance, try to create a SQL CE 2.0 or 3.0 database without a password and specify that you want to encrypt it. Database creation will fail with a very terse "Errors occurred." message...

When such an error occurs, you should also look at the "basic error information" (ERRORINFO structure) for the native error code. You must look this value up on the provider's published error messages where you should get more detailed info about the error.