diff --git a/system/database/drivers/sqlsrv/sqlsrv_driver.php b/system/database/drivers/sqlsrv/sqlsrv_driver.php
index 9c50209..e4fd902 100644
--- a/system/database/drivers/sqlsrv/sqlsrv_driver.php
+++ b/system/database/drivers/sqlsrv/sqlsrv_driver.php
@@ -424,13 +424,18 @@
 	/**
 	 * The error message string
 	 *
-	 * @access	private
 	 * @return	string
 	 */
-	function _error_message()
+	protected function _error_message()
 	{
-		$error = array_shift(sqlsrv_errors());
-		return !empty($error['message']) ? $error['message'] : null;
+		$error = sqlsrv_errors();
+		if ( ! is_array($error))
+		{
+			return '';
+		}
+
+		$error = array_shift($error);
+		return isset($error['message']) ? $error['message'] : '';
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -438,13 +443,25 @@
 	/**
 	 * The error message number
 	 *
-	 * @access	private
-	 * @return	integer
+	 * @return	string
 	 */
-	function _error_number()
+	protected function _error_number()
 	{
-		$error = array_shift(sqlsrv_errors());
-		return isset($error['SQLSTATE']) ? $error['SQLSTATE'] : null;
+		$error = sqlsrv_errors();
+		if ( ! is_array($error))
+		{
+			return '';
+		}
+		elseif (isset($error['SQLSTATE']))
+		{
+			return isset($error['code']) ? $error['SQLSTATE'].'/'.$error['code'] : $error['SQLSTATE'];
+		}
+		elseif (isset($error['code']))
+		{
+			return $error['code'];
+		}
+
+		return '';
 	}
 
 	// --------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst b/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
index ef9fda6..5cfb401 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/changelog.rst
@@ -115,7 +115,8 @@
 -  Fixed a bug (#68, #414) - Oracle's escape_str() didn't properly escape LIKE wild characters.
 -  Fixed a bug (#81) - ODBC's list_fields() and field_data() methods skipped the first column due to odbc_field_*() functions' index starting at 1 instead of 0.
 -  Fixed a bug (#129) - ODBC's num_rows() returned -1 in some cases, due to not all subdrivers supporting the odbc_num_rows() function.
--  Fixed a bug (#153) - E_NOTICE being generated by getimagesize() in the :doc:`File Uploading library <libraries/file_uploading>`.
+-  Fixed a bug (#153) - E_NOTICE being generated by getimagesize() in the :doc:`File Uploading Library <libraries/file_uploading>`.
+-  Fixed a bug (#611) - SQLSRV's _error_message() and _error_number() methods used to issue warnings when there's no actual error.
 
 Version 2.1.1
 =============