Crystal Reports XI "error message"
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I have been reading WTF for a couple of months now. I am so addicted to this site that I read all of the articles all the way back to like May 2005.
On to the post....
I have been working a lot with Crystal Reports XI lately. I am writing a report that will use multiple stored procedures(as in about 25.....is that a WTF itself?). I noticed that my stored procedure didn't contain all the information that I needed, so I edited the stored procedure in SQL Server 2005. To make Crystal Reports get the new updated version of the stored procedure, I did the "Verify Database". I was then prompted with this very informative "error" message.
Maybe it wasn't an error message at all. The stored procedure updated correctly and the report works fine.
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For those of you who don't want to look it up:
[code]// MessageId: E_UNEXPECTED
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// MessageText:
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// Catastrophic failure
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#define E_UNEXPECTED _HRESULT_TYPEDEF_(0x8000FFFFL)
[/code]TRWTF is that the message text for E_UNEXPECTED is "Catastrophic failure", my personal opinion is that "Unexpected error" or something like it would be more appropriate.
Also, I vote for renaming it E_SPANISH_INQUISITION.
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Two catastrophic failures reported in one week. <font size="-1">Nostradamus</font><font size="-1"> predicted something like this would happen.</font><font size="-1"> </font>