Wednesday, November 24, 2010

SQL Server - Try, Catch and Throw Exception

Wasn't sure until now how to re-throw a caught error in SQL Server - turns out it's relatively straightforward using RAISERROR:

BEGIN TRY
-- RAISERROR with severity 11-19 will cause execution to
-- jump to the CATCH block.
RAISERROR ('Error raised in TRY block.', -- Message text.
16, -- Severity.
1 -- State.
);
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
DECLARE @ErrorMessage NVARCHAR(4000);
DECLARE @ErrorSeverity INT;
DECLARE @ErrorState INT;

SELECT
@ErrorMessage = ERROR_MESSAGE(),
@ErrorSeverity = ERROR_SEVERITY(),
@ErrorState = ERROR_STATE();

-- Use RAISERROR inside the CATCH block to return error
-- information about the original error that caused
-- execution to jump to the CATCH block.
RAISERROR (@ErrorMessage, -- Message text.
@ErrorSeverity, -- Severity.
@ErrorState -- State.
);
END CATCH;
Source: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178592.aspx

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