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Messages (for errors) Catalog Views - sys.messages

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Applies to: SQL Server

Contains a row for each message_id or language_id of the error messages in the system, for both system-defined and user-defined messages. For more information, see sp_addmessage (Transact-SQL).

Column name Data type Description
message_id int ID of the message. Is unique across server. Message IDs less than 50000 are system messages.
language_id smallint Language ID for which the text in text is used, as defined in syslanguages. This is unique for a specified message_id.
severity tinyint Severity level of the message, between 0 and 25. This is the same for all message languages within a message_id.
is_event_logged bit 1 = Message is event-logged when an error is raised. This is the same for all message languages within a message_id.
text nvarchar(2048) Text of the message used when the corresponding language_id is active.

Permissions

Requires membership in the public role. For more information, see Metadata Visibility Configuration.

See Also

THROW (Transact-SQL)
Catalog Views (Transact-SQL)
Messages (for Errors) Catalog Views (Transact-SQL)
Exception Message Box Programming
Error Messages
Database Engine Events and Errors