What causes SQL Server to return the message 'The statement has been terminated'?

Question

I have a very simple INSERT statement being executed from a PHP script running on a Linux Apache web server. I can run the query fine from within SQL Management Studio and

Answer 1

You can use the code in the message to know which is the error. For example:

[2627: The statement has been terminated.]

In this case, the error code is 2627, so if you execute the sql below you'll know the message

SELECT msg.text
  FROM sys.messages msg 
 INNER JOIN sys.syslanguages lng ON lng.msglangid = msg.language_id
 WHERE msg.message_id = 2627
   AND lng.alias = 'English'

Violation of %ls constraint '%.*ls'. Cannot insert duplicate key in object '%.*ls'. The duplicate key value is %ls.

This is a way to know the right message error. In my example the error is violation of primary key