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Asked: 2026-05-11T21:03:50+00:00

I’ve a feeling this might not be possible, but here goes… I’ve got a

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I’ve a feeling this might not be possible, but here goes…

I’ve got a table that has an insert trigger on it. When data is inserted into this table the trigger fires and parses a long varbinary column. This trigger performs some operations on the binary data and writes several entries into a second table.

What I have recently discovered is that sometimes the binarydata is not “correct” (i.e. it does not conform to the spec it is supposed to – I have NO control over this whatsoever) and this can cause casting errors etc.

My initial reaction was to wrap things in TRY/CATCH blocks, but it appears this is not a solution either, as the execution of the CATCH means the transaction is doomed and I get a “Transaction doomed in trigger” error.

What is imperitive is that the data still gets written to the initial table. I don’t care if the data gets written to the second table or not.

I’m not sure if I can accomplish this or not, and would gratefully receive any advice.

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  1. Editorial Team

    what you could do is commit a transaction inside a trigger and then perform those cast.
    i don’t know if that’s a possible solution to your problem though.

    another option would be to create a function IsYourBinaryValueOK which would check the column value. however the check would have to be done with like to not cause an error.

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