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DB_S_NONEXTROWSET
OLE DB has no additional rowset
DB_S_NONEXTROWSET is HRESULT 265925 (0x00040EC5) from Microsoft OLE DB. AllStat describes this result as “No more rowsets.” The high-order severity bit is clear, so this is a success result, but it carries more information than plain S_OK.
The current multiple-result operation completed and there is no next rowset to return.
Where the result is encountered
- This result can appear in stored procedures returning several results; record the producing interface and method rather than inferring behavior from the symbolic name alone.
- This result can appear in IMultipleResults-style iteration; record the producing interface and method rather than inferring behavior from the symbolic name alone.
- It can appear in batch commands mixing rowsets and row counts; record the producing interface and method rather than inferring behavior from the symbolic name alone.
The same numeric success value can be mishandled when a wrapper exposes only a Boolean. Keep the original HRESULT until the code-specific outputs and state transition have been evaluated.
State boundary that must be proved
The central question for it is whether all previously returned results were consumed and released before the consumer terminates result iteration. The HRESULT alone confirms neither unrelated work nor the quality of optional outputs.
A reliable interpretation of it names the exact method contract, the object generation, and the outputs that remain valid. This prevents a success-with-information result from being promoted to full success or demoted to a generic error.
Evidence and telemetry to preserve
- preserve command text or procedure name.
- preserve result index and type.
- preserve row counts and output parameters.
- preserve open rowset interfaces.
- preserve transaction state after the final result.
Also record db_s_nonextrowset_operation, db_s_nonextrowset_object, db_s_nonextrowset_state_before, db_s_nonextrowset_state_after, UTC time, process and thread identifiers, and a correlation ID. Keep secrets out of logs while retaining GUIDs, CLSIDs, media subtypes, property IDs, row identities, and hashes needed to distinguish objects.
Correct handling, retry, and recovery
End result enumeration normally, release the current result, and then read output parameters or commit according to the provider contract.
Retry it only when the recorded state can change the documented outcome. Repeating the same call is inappropriate for a stable end marker, cancellation, unsupported format, adjusted property, or partial result whose completed side effects have not been reconciled.
Diagnostic sequence
- capture the raw HRESULT
0x00040EC5immediately after the returning method and record whether the caller usedSUCCEEDED,FAILED, equality testing, or exception translation. - Identify the exact owner of it: interface, method, object instance, provider or filter version, thread or apartment, and operation phase.
- Validate the decisive contract boundary for it: all previously returned results were consumed and released before the consumer terminates result iteration.
- inspect every output parameter, count, status array, returned interface, or side effect that the method documentation associates with this success-with-information result.
- Compare the observed state before and after it; do not assume that a success severity bit means every optional sub-operation completed.
- reproduce the smallest request with the same object state and then change only the condition identified by the evidence before repeating the operation.
Practical validation scenario
A procedure returns two rowsets followed by output parameters. After consuming the second rowset, the client receives it and proceeds to read outputs without logging a failure.
The negative test should preserve the condition that produces it; the recovery test should alter only that condition and verify the final state as well as the HRESULT.
Difference from nearby HRESULT values
DB_S_NORESULT can report no more result object for a particular call; it specifically states there is no next rowset.
This distinction determines whether the caller should consume partial outputs, stop iteration, wait, reconfigure, notify the user, or perform no error recovery at all.
Developer and administrator guidance
Application telemetry should separate terminal failure, ordinary success, partial completion, continuation, cancellation, and warning-like success. Support bundles should contain the smallest reproducible call and the effective configuration seen by the owning component.
A support report for it should include decimal 265925, hexadecimal 0x00040EC5, the AllStat meaning, the owning API, and the first detailed status or output that explains why the method did not return ordinary S_OK.
References
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