ON ERROR MESSAGES AND LACK OF FORMALITY
with Fabian Pascal

 

 

 

From: NA

To: Editor

Date: 10/06/2003

 

Here is our latest error message coming from Oracle:

 

Oracle error occurred, but error message could not be retrieved from Oracle.

 

Not a very wise Oracle methinks.

 

 

From: Fabian Pascal

To: NA

 

I'm afraid error messages have been a notorious area in products for decades, so this is nothing new. Most of them are useless and not at the proper (user) level.

 

However, with the advent of the new crap in products brought by OO, XML and the rest, it's becoming practically impossible to figure out what a problem is, as any formal remnants are thrown out the window.

 

 

Posted 12/12/03

 

 

 

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