What does HRESULT 0x00040EDA (DB_S_ERRORSOCCURRED) mean?

DB_S_ERRORSOCCURRED

OLE DB multiple-step operation succeeded with per-item errors

DB_S_ERRORSOCCURRED is HRESULT 265946 (0x00040EDA) from Microsoft OLE DB. The documented description is “Multiple-step operation completed with one or more errors; Check each status value.” The high-order severity bit is clear, so this is a success result, but it carries more information than plain S_OK.

A compound OLE DB operation completed, but one or more individual properties, bindings, columns, or elements reported errors that must be inspected separately.

Where the result is encountered

• This result can appear in IDBProperties::SetProperties; record the producing interface and method.
• This result can appear in accessor or binding creation; record the producing interface and method.
• It can appear in multi-property initialization and configuration; record the producing interface and method.

Diagnostic sequence

• Capture the raw HRESULT 0x00040EDA immediately after the returning method and record whether the caller used SUCCEEDED, FAILED, equality testing, or exception translation.
• Verify the method-specific state: the consumer examines every status value and uses only the subset whose postconditions are valid.

State to verify

The central question is whether the consumer examines every status value and uses only the subset whose postconditions are valid.

Correct handling, retry, and recovery

Do not treat SUCCEEDED as full success. Reject the object if a required element failed; otherwise continue with a clearly documented reduced configuration.

Evidence to preserve

• Preserve overall HRESULT.
• Preserve DBPROPSTATUS, DBBINDSTATUS, or other element statuses.
• Preserve provider error records.
• Preserve required versus optional flags.
• Preserve effective object state after the call.

Difference from nearby HRESULT values

DB_E_ERRORSOCCURRED has failure severity for a multiple-step operation; it indicates the overall call still returned a usable success state with errors in elements.

Developer and administrator guidance

Practical validation scenario

A data source sets ten initialization properties. Eight succeed, one optional property is unsupported, and one required security property fails; the application inspects statuses and refuses to initialize despite success severity.

References

• Microsoft: OLE DB return codes
• Microsoft: OLE DB Driver return codes
• Microsoft: OLE DB error records