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How to do error handling in transaction.

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The examples presented here are specific to stored procedures as they are the desired method of interacting with a database. When an error is encountered within a stored procedure, the best you can do is halt the sequential processing of the code and either branch to another code segment in the procedure or return processing to the calling application. The @@ERROR automatic variable is used to implement error handling code. It contains the error ID produced by the last SQL statement executed during a client’s connection. When a statement executes successfully, @@ERROR contains 0. To determine if a statement executes successfully, an IF statement is used to check the value of @@ERROR immediately after the target statement executes. It is imperative that @@ERROR be checked immediately after the target statement, because its value is reset to 0 when the next statement executes successfully. If a trappable error occurs, @@ERROR will have a value greater than 0. SQL Server resets the @@ERROR value after every successful command, so you must immediately capture the @@ERROR value. Most of the time, you'll want to test for changes in @@ERROR right after any INSERT, UPDATE, or DELETE statement.

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CREATE PROCEDURE addTitle(@title_id VARCHAR(6), @au_id VARCHAR(11),
             @title VARCHAR(20), @title_type CHAR(12))
AS

BEGIN TRAN
  INSERT titles(title_id, title, type)
  VALUES (@title_id, @title, @title_type)

  IF (@@ERROR <> 0) BEGIN
    PRINT 'Unexpected error occurred!'
    ROLLBACK TRAN
    RETURN 1
  END

  INSERT titleauthor(au_id, title_id)
  VALUES (@au_id, @title_id)

  IF (@@ERROR <> 0) BEGIN
    PRINT 'Unexpected error occurred!'
    ROLLBACK TRAN
    RETURN 1
  END

COMMIT TRAN

RETURN 0

This kind of solution contains substantial repetition especially if your business logic requires more than two Transact-SQL statements to be implemented. A more elegant solution is to group codes into a generic error handling procedure:

Click here to copy the following block
CREATE PROCEDURE addTitle(@title_id VARCHAR(6), @au_id VARCHAR(11),
             @title VARCHAR(20), @title_type CHAR(12))
AS

BEGIN TRAN
  INSERT titles(title_id, title, type)
  VALUES (@title_id, @title, @title_type)

  IF (@@ERROR <> 0) GOTO ERR_HANDLER

  INSERT titleauthor(au_id, title_id)
  VALUES (@au_id, @title_id)

  IF (@@ERROR <> 0) GOTO ERR_HANDLER

COMMIT TRAN

RETURN 0

ERR_HANDLER:
PRINT 'Unexpected error occurred!'
ROLLBACK TRAN
RETURN 1


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Job Description : He is the moderator of this site and currently working as an independent consultant. He works with VB.net/ASP.net, SQL Server and other MS technologies. He is MCSD.net, MCDBA and MCSE. In his free time he likes to watch funny movies and doing oil painting.
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