How the Messages Are Ordered in This Chapter

Database server message-log messages are arranged in this chapter in alphabetical order, sorted with the following additional rules:

The time stamp that precedes each message is ignored.
Letter case is ignored in alphabetization.
Spaces are ignored.
Quotation marks are ignored.
Leading ellipses are ignored.
The word the is ignored if it is the first word in the message.
Messages that begin with numbers or punctuation symbols appear toward the end of the list in a special section labeled Messages: Symbols.
Certain related messages are grouped together, as follows:

A cause and suggested corrective action for a message or group of messages follow the message text.