Question

What is the best way to handle if USE {invalid_database_name} is failed? I would like to ignore the rest of the statements in such cases. This is so as to avoid accidentally run the script on wrong database.
Thanks for your suggestion !!!

Answer 1

To check if a Database exists :

IF DB_ID("<your database>" IS NOT NULL
BEGIN
    // Your code here
END

or if it is a stored procedure :

IF DB_ID("<your database>" IS NULL
BEGIN
    RETURN
END

That’s better that searching in sysobjects.