Contains a row for each message_id or language_id of the error messages in the system, for both system-defined and user-defined messages. For more information, see sp_addmessage (Transact-SQL).
Column name
Data type
Description
message_id
int
ID of the message. Is unique across server. Message IDs less than 50000 are system messages.
language_id
smallint
Language ID for which the text in text is used, as defined in syslanguages. This is unique for a specified message_id.
severity
tinyint
Severity level of the message, between 1 and 25. This is the same for all message languages within a message_id.
is_event_logged
bit
1 = Message is event-logged when an error is raised. This is the same for all message languages within a message_id.
text
nvarchar(2048)
Text of the message used when the corresponding language_id is active.
Requires membership in the public role. For more information, see Metadata Visibility Configuration.