I want to use CREATE FUNCTION in a block that will "swallow" errors, but this
BEGIN TRY
CREATE FUNCTION test (@ID int)
RETURNS int
AS
BEGIN
RETURN(2 * @ID)
END
END TRY
BEGIN CATCH
END CATCH
results in
Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Line 3 Incorrect syntax near the keyword
'FUNCTION'. Msg 137, Level 15, State 2, Line 7 Must declare the scalar
variable "@ID".
Why?
Best Answer
Many DDL statements must either start a batch or be the only statement in a batch. So the general solution is to use dynamic SQL. EG
I want to use CREATE FUNCTION in a block that will "swallow" errors, but this