David Laing's blog » MSSQL http://davidlaing.com Craftmanship over crap Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:39:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9-rare en hourly 1 Try/Catch for SQL!? http://davidlaing.com/2009/03/05/trycatch-for-sql/ http://davidlaing.com/2009/03/05/trycatch-for-sql/#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:42:05 +0000 mrdavidlaing http://davidlaing.com/?p=167 Thanks to Nick Sertis for this trick – who knew TSQL could do try/catch statements!

Very useful when you need to write data manipulation scripts for production databases.

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BEGIN TRY
 
    BEGIN TRAN
 
        --Some SQL
 
 
    COMMIT TRAN
 
END TRY
-- Catch the errors on the inserts
BEGIN CATCH
 
    ROLLBACK TRAN
    SELECT ERROR_MESSAGE()
 
END CATCH
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