December 2023

UPDATED Jan 4, 2024 – Several people had mentioned they could not get the example code to work. This was because I chose to overflow a text column which only outputs the detailed error messages for SQL Server 2017 and above. I have since updated the code to use a numeric value which has been verified to work on SQL Server 2012 through 2022. Recently, one of my customers considered enabling Trace Flag 3625 on one of their SQL Servers, but they wanted a way to quickly test its functionality beforehand. For those of you that are unfamiliar with that...

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