note 70994 added to function.mssql-get-last-message

Deleting an unexistent record causes mssql_query() to return FALSE (error) ====================================================== I wrote a code that deletes a set of records without verifying if that record ID exists before. I made this because of performance issues, since checking the existence of that record before deletion would require more interpreter and database processing. Problem is that, if I tried to delete a record ID that didn't exist (i.e. DELETE FROM X WHERE ID = 999, and 999 is an unexistent rec) mssql_query() returned FALSE, wich, by the function documentation means an execution error. Even when I tried to retrieve the error by using mssql_get_last_message() function or by selecting the error code from the system tables in SQL Server, there was no error. Therefore, I don't know if this is a mssql functions bug in PHP or a misconfiguration in SQL Server (wich doesn't seems to be the case, since it returns error code ZERO, meaning that the query executed successfully), but the only workaround I found was to do a verification of existence of the ID record by record before deleting them. Hope this helps someone that eventually came to face the same problem. ---- Server IP: 66.163.161.117 Probable Submitter: 200.203.179.125 (proxied: 172.16.224.55) ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mssql-get-last-message.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/70994 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/70994/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/70994/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/70994/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/70994/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/70994/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/70994/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/70994 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/70994 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php