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January 15, 2013 at 8:51 pm

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Lokesh Vij SSChampion Points: 10836 More actions · Answer 1

Easy one for the day. Thanks 🙂

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demonfox SSCertifiable Points: 6289 More actions · Answer 2

for missing explanation ; I think Funtion is designed to return a value . When error handling is allowed , suppose an exception is raised , the return value is bound to restrictions . That may have been the reason to not allow the try catch handling in sql server.

please correct me if I am wrong.

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January 15, 2013 at 11:54 pm

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Good question brushin up your skills. 🙂

Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259105 More actions · Answer 4

Nice question, thanks! Explanation is short, but correct 😀

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Stuart Davies SSCoach Points: 19505 More actions · Answer 5

Nice and straightforwards - thanks

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Hugo Kornelis SSC Guru Points: 64790 More actions · Answer 6

Good question. I had to do a bit of research - I knew it wasn't allowewd in inline functions, but was unsure about multi-statement and scalar functions.

The link provided in the explanation is for SQL Server 2005; here are two links for the current version:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175976.aspx

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186755.aspx

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paul s-306273 SSChampion Points: 10730 More actions · Answer 7

Ouch - read this too quickly and 'saw' cannot as can...

Gazareth One Orange Chip Points: 27737 More actions · Answer 8

Nice question, good to remember.

I'm struggling to think what you'd be doing in a function that would require a TRY... CATCH 🙂

Hugo Kornelis SSC Guru Points: 64790 More actions · Answer 9

Gazareth (1/16/2013)
I'm struggling to think what you'd be doing in a function that would require a TRY... CATCH 🙂

Data conversions with possibly unclean data; computations that could generate an overflow, underflow, or divide by zero condition, etc.

Or maybe even lookups in a table that might not exist (I shudder at the thought of having to maintain a database where that is a serious possibility - but I've seen worse)

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Hugo Kornelis (1/16/2013)
Gazareth (1/16/2013)
I'm struggling to think what you'd be doing in a function that would require a TRY... CATCH 🙂
Data conversions with possibly unclean data; computations that could generate an overflow, underflow, or divide by zero condition, etc.
Or maybe even lookups in a table that might not exist (I shudder at the thought of having to maintain a database where that is a serious possibility - but I've seen worse)

Fair enough, although I'm not sure I personally would be using functions for most of those; and if I did I would probably be using other methods than TRY... CATCH to deal with them.

But that's just me. 🙂

(Bob Brown) SSCrazy Points: 2705 More actions · Answer 11

Thanks for the great question. Had to research it to get it right.

SQLDoubleG Hall of Fame Points: 3100 More actions · Answer 12

negative questions make true to be false and vice versa... should've double read an easy question :Whistling:

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January 16, 2013 at 5:53 am

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nice question 🙂

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ronmoses@gmail.com SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4480 More actions · Answer 14

I just encountered this scenario this past week. The ISDATE() and ISNUMERIC() functions are practically useless when determining whether a string will safely convert to a datetime or numeric value, respectively. (For example, '$' passes ISNUMERIC().) So I figured why not put a TRY...CATCH in a function, try to convert the value, return 0 if it fails and 1 if it doesn't. Bingo, working ISDATE(). But no... denied. Oh well.

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