How to catch those two message errors in SQL?

• SQLOzzie

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  March 22, 2011 at 10:15 am

  #248529

  Here's an instance.

  If you go to add a Foreign key to a child table where the referenced column in the parent table is not a primary key, you will receive 2 errors.

  Msg 1776, Level 16, State 0, Line 1

  There are no primary or candidate keys in the referenced table 'Mosaic.dbo.ProgramRecoType' that match the referencing column list in the foreign key 'FK_ProviderServiceCountryRecommendation_ProgramRecoType_ProgramRecoType_ID_ProgramRecoType_ID'.

  Msg 1750, Level 16, State 0, Line 1

  Could not create constraint. See previous errors.

  However, if you try/catch - you only catch the second error - resulting in the display of

  Msg 1750, Level 16, State 0, Line 1

  Could not create constraint. See previous errors.

  Which does me no good? Is there actually a way to catch this?

  Doug

• GSquared

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  March 22, 2011 at 10:49 am

  #1301992

  Nope. Catch just gets the last one.

  Try Catch is more meant to capture runtime issues with data or security/access.

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