Question

We have folder with multiple sql files. How to catch error with particular file and log it that file name.

We are using following script to execute sqlcmd.

$ServerName=$args[0]
$DatabaseName=$args[1]
$UserName=$args[2]
$Passcode=$args[3]
$FolderPath=$args[4]
$errorpath=$args[5]

foreach ($f in Get-ChildItem -path  $FolderPath -Filter *.sql | sort-object) {
    $fileCurrent = $f.fullname
     try { 
         invoke-sqlcmd -ServerInstance $ServerName -Database $DatabaseName -U  $UserName  -P $Passcode -InputFile $f.fullname 
}
catch {
   $_ | Out-File $errorpath -Append
}

}

we have 100 files in that folder and two files are erroring out we want to log error and file name.

Answer 1

If you aren’t hitting the catch block, it’s because you are encountering a “non-terminating” error. Non-terminating errors don’t trigger catch blocks.

To force your error to be terminating, you can either pass -ErrorAction 1 to Invoke-SQLCmd or before the loop, set $errorActionPreference = 'Stop'.

With this change, your catch block should now be triggered when Invoke-SQLCmd fails.