October 29, 2012 at 12:48 pm
Hi all,
I have the following construct:
select name, value
from
( select name, value from view1
union all
select name, value from view2
union all
select name, value from view3
)
If any of the selects in the from fails, I need to display: 'no_data',0
When I try to wrap each select in try/catch, SS screams at me.
What are my options?
Thanks,
October 29, 2012 at 12:55 pm
eugene.pipko (10/29/2012)
Hi all,I have the following construct:
select name, valuefrom
( select name, value from view1
union all
select name, value from view2
union all
select name, value from view3
)
If any of the selects in the from fails, I need to display: 'no_data',0
When I try to wrap each select in try/catch, SS screams at me.
What are my options?
Thanks,
You can't just toss try/catch block in the middle of a query. What do you mean by "If any of the selects in the from fails"? Are you expecting an error when selecting from a view? Or do you mean "fail" because there are no rows returned?
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October 29, 2012 at 1:05 pm
Thanks for reply. By fails, I mean, the statement returns an error. Usually timeout error.
October 29, 2012 at 1:13 pm
eugene.pipko (10/29/2012)
Thanks for reply. By fails, I mean, the statement returns an error. Usually timeout error.
You need to handle that in the front end. Your statement needs to complete before a try/catch will help you with that. A timeout is not a sql error, it is a connection error.
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October 29, 2012 at 2:12 pm
What about any other error? There is no front end. The result is emailed to the user.
I guess what I am trying to do is to let the other 2 parts of the union all work and report 'no_data',0 for the part that failed.
Is it possible is SS 2K8R2?
October 29, 2012 at 2:42 pm
eugene.pipko (10/29/2012)
What about any other error? There is no front end. The result is emailed to the user.I guess what I am trying to do is to let the other 2 parts of the union all work and report 'no_data',0 for the part that failed.
Is it possible is SS 2K8R2?
The front end doesn't have to be visual. Something gets the results and emails it. Given what you are describing I wouldn't bother trying to capture other types of errors. Let what process runs your query handle it. Put your try/catch there and you should be good to go. It sounds like it doesn't matter if the connection times out or the database has been deleted, you want to send 'no_data'.
Remember that a union is a single query. Parts of it can't work while other parts fail. It is all or nothing.
select 1
union all
select 1 where 1 = 'x' --this query would fail
Consider the above code. It is a simple query with a union. The second query will cause the whole thing to fail. If you want to capture row counts for each query they need to be run separately. There is no way to know from the results which query in a union returns results.
Perhaps if you can explain the whole process a little more clearly I can see if I can help figure out a way to get what you want.
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October 30, 2012 at 2:23 am
eugene.pipko (10/29/2012)
What about any other error? There is no front end. The result is emailed to the user.I guess what I am trying to do is to let the other 2 parts of the union all work and report 'no_data',0 for the part that failed.
Is it possible is SS 2K8R2?
My suggestion:
1. INSERT each of the SELECT FROM view statements into a Temp table.
2. Surround each with a TRY/CATCH.
3. Set a flag in each CATCH to tell you which query failed.
4. SELECT out of the temp table the results that were returned.
My thought question: Have you ever been told that your query runs too fast?
My advice:
INDEXing a poor-performing query is like putting sugar on cat food. Yeah, it probably tastes better but are you sure you want to eat it?
The path of least resistance can be a slippery slope. Take care that fixing your fixes of fixes doesn't snowball and end up costing you more than fixing the root cause would have in the first place.
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