Defensive Database Programming - Red Gate Software

Using Transactions for Data Modifications......................................................................257Using Transactions and XACT_ABORT to Handle Errors............................................ 262Using TRY…CATCH blocks to Handle Errors................................................................. 266A TRY…CATCH example: retrying after deadlocks.................................................... 267TRY…CATCH Gotchas.........................................................................................................273Re-throwing errors.............................................................................................................273TRY…CATCH blocks cannot catch all errors............................................................... 278Client-side Error Handling..................................................................................................285Conclusion.............................................................................................................................290The paid versions of this book contain two additional chapters: Chapter 9, SurvivingConcurrent Queries and Chapter 10, Surviving Concurrent Modifications. See theIntroduction for further details.