In yesterday’s post, we tried a TRY/CATCH, and those of us who actually ran the demo scripts were disappointed. We found that a TRY/CATCH alone doesn’t fix it: we end up getting rows in the Parent table, but no rows in the Child table. It turns out there are some gotchas in Books Online’s summary of what TRY/CATCH does:
A group of Transact-SQL statements can be enclosed in a TRY block. If an error occurs in the TRY block, control is passed to another group of statements that is enclosed in a CATCH block.
The devil is in the details. If