doobya,

Let me give you a few suggestions:

#1. Consider that maybe it's you who isn't understanding what's being said. You're arguing with someone who writes top notch books on SQL Server. I'm personally not inclined to think that he's the one that doesn't get it.

#2. Take a deep breath and understand how TRY...CATCH blocks are designed to work, not how you think they should work had you designed SQL Server yourself. The whole point of the block is to exit to the CATCH when the error is encountered rather than continuing to process. What you're doing is like complaining about how your TV no longer works after you blow the circuit by purposely overloading it. Of course it doesn't work, it's designed specifically not to work.

If you want 'Y' to happen regardless of what happens with 'X' then don't put it in the same TRY.