Question

I am currently typing a script for a project of mine and currently having difficulties finding information on how to do most of the functionality MS SQL has to offer.

I am trying to figure out a way to test if an SQL statement failed its execution. For example, making an attempt to insert a record that already exists in the table. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Answer 1

You can use the try/catch capabilities of SQL Server.

Another article source and sample T-SQL:

BEGIN TRY
  DECLARE @X INT
  -- Divide by zero to generate Error
  SET @X = 1/0
  PRINT 'Command after error in TRY block'
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
  PRINT 'Error Detected'
END CATCH

E.g. Handle failures in the catch block for specific operations.