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tswern
Starting Member
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 Posted - 2003-11-09 : 04:51:20
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| Is there a way to force a jobs step to fail using T-SQL?Say for example if a select from a table does not returns any rows, is it possible for me to return a something to make SQL 2000 log the step as failure?thanks in advance!Save the dugongs! |
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nr
SQLTeam MVY
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Posted - 2003-11-09 : 05:19:45
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| Try a raiserror.==========================================Cursors are useful if you don't know sql.DTS can be used in a similar way.Beer is not cold and it isn't fizzy. |
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Stoad
Freaky Yak Linguist
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Posted - 2003-11-09 : 05:47:52
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| ... or try something like this:insert into t select * from tt where n>555if @@rowcount=0 delete from NonExistingTable_NameAnd this step will be marked as failed... |
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Forcing a Job step to fail with T-sql