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dmilam
Posting Yak Master
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 Posted - 2011-04-11 : 12:24:45
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Is there a better method than using GOTO ExitHandler; I've come across this in some production code and it seems like RETURN would be better, but I'm not familiar enough with (historical) GOTO usage in T-SQL. |
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robvolk
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Posted - 2011-04-11 : 13:21:59
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| If there's no code after the Exithandler label (except for RETURN), then it's safe to replace the GOTO with RETURN. |
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dmilam
Posting Yak Master
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Posted - 2011-04-11 : 13:30:48
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Originally posted by robvolk
If there's no code after the Exithandler label (except for RETURN), then it's safe to replace the GOTO with RETURN.
Thanks, Rob. Here's a sample:TRUNCATE TABLE [db].[dbo].[table];SELECT @ReturnError = @@ERROR;IF(@ReturnError <> 0) BEGIN SET @ReturnError = 1;SET @ReturnMessage='Error, While attempting to truncate the table [db].[dbo].[table]';GOTO ExitHandler; END After this, an INSERT into the above truncated table. |
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robvolk
Most Valuable Yak
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Posted - 2011-04-11 : 13:41:20
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| That's not the part I was talking about, what comes after the ExitHandler label? Look for "ExitHandler:" in the code.And as far as error handling goes, you should look at TRY...CATCH. The current code will not handle an error of severity 16 or higher (e.g. truncate a table that doesn't exist), but TRY...CATCH would. |
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dmilam
Posting Yak Master
185 Posts |
Posted - 2011-04-11 : 15:06:05
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quote:
Originally posted by robvolk
That's not the part I was talking about, what comes after the ExitHandler label? Look for "ExitHandler:" in the code.
"ExitHandler:" doesn't exist in this code. There's no comment as to where or how this code fits into a larger proc, for example. |
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Michael Valentine Jones
Yak DBA Kernel (pronounced Colonel)
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Posted - 2011-04-11 : 15:26:02
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quote:
Originally posted by dmilam
quote:
Originally posted by robvolk
That's not the part I was talking about, what comes after the ExitHandler label? Look for "ExitHandler:" in the code.
"ExitHandler:" doesn't exist in this code. There's no comment as to where or how this code fits into a larger proc, for example.
If ExitHandler: does not exit, this statement would cause a compile time error:GOTO ExitHandler; CODO ERGO SUM |
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dmilam
Posting Yak Master
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Posted - 2011-04-11 : 18:30:45
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| Makes sense. I'm being passed fragments, it would seem. |
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GOTO ExitHandler