What type of field is PhaseFK? -- bob On Wed, 17 Mar 2004, david wrote: > Hello there! > > I have just about driven myself crazy with an odd intermittent problem. > > I have an intranet site, a good size one at that, on a Windows 2000 Server, > running Apache, connecting to another Windows 2000 Server running SQL Server > 2000. It all works just peachy, and life is good. > > But (there is always a "but"). > > Now and then, I get a "Query Failed" message. I cannot find the source of > the problem, no matter how hard I try. I can't even find an error message, > which is really odd. > > The query looks like this (it is a dynamic query, so it can change): > SELECT PhaseFK FROM Facts WHERE (CategoryFK=5) > > The message I get back looks like this: > Warning: mssql_query(): Query failed in runsql.php on line 10 > > I tried looking at the following to get an error message: > mssql_query("SELECT @@ERROR as ErrorCode"); (it returns nothing) > mssql_get_last_message (it returns nothing, OR, sometimes it tells me that > it changed the database context) > > What I think might be going on (because it ONLY happens with certain tables) > is that the table is locked (there are some external processes that work > with this table, which fire off more or less randomly from my code's point > of view) or is other unavailable for some reason which eludes me. But I > can't seem to figure out how to tell if this is the case or not. > > It seems to me that if I get a "Query Failed" then somewhere lurks an error > code, and thus I can trap it nicely, instead of simply failing (that bugs me > from a user point of view). > > Any thoughts? > Thanks! > david > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php