Question

I have tons of insert statements.

I want to ignore errors during the execution of these lines, and I prefer not to wrap each line seperately.

Example:

try
    insert 1
    insert 2
    insert 3
exception
    ...

I want that if an exception was thrown in insert 1, it will ignore it and go back to perform insert 2, and etc.

How can I do it?

I’m looking for something like “Resume next” in VB.

Answer 1

If you can move all the inserts to a sql script and then run them in sql*plus, then every insert will run by its own and the script will continue to run.

If you are using plsqldeveloper (you taged it), then open a new command window (wich is exactly like a sql script run by sql*plus) and put your staements like this:

insert into table your_table values(1,'aa');
insert into table your_table values(2/0,'bb');
insert into table your_table values(3,'cc');
commit;

Even though statement (2) will throw an execption, since it’s not in a block it will continue to the next command.

UPDATE: According to @CheranShunmugavel comment, add

WHENEVER SQLERROR CONTINUE NONE

at the top of the script (especially if your using sql*plus which there the difault is exit).