Error 245 terminates execution

I noticed some funny behaviour in a business application i support, it turned
out it was caused by a conversion error.
Essentially this code emmulates my problem:
PRINT 'Start'
PRINT CONVERT(int,'a')
PRINT 'End'
This code will yield the following result:
Start
Server: Msg 245, Level 16, State 1, Line 2
Syntax error converting the varchar value 'a' to a column of data type int.
In other words the conversion attempt stops execution of the script, despite
error 245 only being a severity 16 error. Does anyone else get this problem?
Suggestions?
Some datatype conversion errors will terminate the batch, that is true. There is no setting that
will change it. Code defensively and check for this in the code so it doesn't happen. Also see the
error handling articles at www.sommarskog.se.
Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/default.asp
http://www.solidqualitylearning.com/
Blog: http://solidqualitylearning.com/blogs/tibor/
"sbt" <sbt@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:36C8E4B5-9282-4207-92B2-868D7755ADDE@.microsoft.com...
>I noticed some funny behaviour in a business application i support, it turned
> out it was caused by a conversion error.
> Essentially this code emmulates my problem:
> PRINT 'Start'
> PRINT CONVERT(int,'a')
> PRINT 'End'
> This code will yield the following result:
> Start
> Server: Msg 245, Level 16, State 1, Line 2
> Syntax error converting the varchar value 'a' to a column of data type int.
> In other words the conversion attempt stops execution of the script, despite
> error 245 only being a severity 16 error. Does anyone else get this problem?
> Suggestions?
|||sbt
Wait for SQL Server 2005 to be used
BEGIN TRY
CATCH......
END TRY
"sbt" <sbt@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:36C8E4B5-9282-4207-92B2-868D7755ADDE@.microsoft.com...
> I noticed some funny behaviour in a business application i support, it
turned
> out it was caused by a conversion error.
> Essentially this code emmulates my problem:
> PRINT 'Start'
> PRINT CONVERT(int,'a')
> PRINT 'End'
> This code will yield the following result:
> Start
> Server: Msg 245, Level 16, State 1, Line 2
> Syntax error converting the varchar value 'a' to a column of data type
int.
> In other words the conversion attempt stops execution of the script,
despite
> error 245 only being a severity 16 error. Does anyone else get this
problem?
> Suggestions?
|||Ye, having a background as a C++ programmer, I'm really missing proper
exception handling, however the database server is not likely to be upgraded
any time soon, so sadly thats not an option.
"Uri Dimant" skrev:

> sbt
> Wait for SQL Server 2005 to be used
> BEGIN TRY
> CATCH......
> END TRY
>
> "sbt" <sbt@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:36C8E4B5-9282-4207-92B2-868D7755ADDE@.microsoft.com...
> turned
> int.
> despite
> problem?
>
>