URGENT : Missing something basic about @@ERROR and OSQL.

Hi.

I have a VERY old DOS application which creates 54 TAB files containing 1 tables' data per file.

The program also creates a text file which is used as a T-SQL script for osql.

The script deletes the data from the DB in bottom up (so no orphans are created in the relationships between the tables).

The script then bulk inserts new data into the tables in top down (so to not create orphans).

Finally, the script shrinks the datafiles.

When this works, it is working fine. Nearly 6 million rows in 54 tables takes up 2.3GB. All good.

Sometimes, the DOS data is invalid - VERY VERY occassionally - bad app - can't get it fixed - living with it by rewriting a web version using MS SQL!

I want to use a transaction to allow me to rollback if the import fails.

So, I have something like this (edited to show the issue)


------------EDITED SAMPLE OF T-SQL script------------
ALTER DATABASE [TripleCDataConversion]
SET  RECOVERY SIMPLE

BEGIN TRANSACTION

DELETE TripleCDataConversion.dbo.Distributors
DELETE TripleCDataConversion.dbo.Customers
DELETE TripleCDataConversion.dbo.CommentCodes

IF @@ERROR <> 0
 BEGIN
 PRINT 'Failed Import Startup'
 END
ELSE
 BEGIN
 PRINT 'Successful Import Startup'
 END

IF @@ERROR = 0
 BEGIN
 BULK INSERT TripleCDataConversion.dbo.CommentCodes
 FROM 'D:\CCC2SQL\CO.TAB'
 WITH
  (
  FIELDTERMINATOR = '\t',
  KEEPIDENTITY,
  KEEPNULLS,
  LASTROW =                136,
  ORDER (UniqueID ASC)
  )
 IF @@ERROR <> 0
  BEGIN
  PRINT 'Failed to import CommentCodes         '
  END
 ELSE
  BEGIN
  PRINT 'Successfully imported CommentCodes         '
  END
 END

IF @@ERROR = 0
 BEGIN
 BULK INSERT TripleCDataConversion.dbo.Customers
 FROM 'D:\CCC2SQL\CU1.TAB'
 WITH
  (
  FIELDTERMINATOR = '\t',
  KEEPIDENTITY,
  KEEPNULLS,
  LASTROW =               1790,
  ORDER (UniqueID ASC)
  )
 IF @@ERROR <> 0
  BEGIN
  PRINT 'Failed to import Customers            '
  END
 ELSE
  BEGIN
  PRINT 'Successfully imported Customers            '
  END
 END

IF @@ERROR = 0
 BEGIN
 BULK INSERT TripleCDataConversion.dbo.Distributors
 FROM 'D:\CCC2SQL\DI.TAB'
 WITH
  (
  FIELDTERMINATOR = '\t',
  KEEPIDENTITY,
  KEEPNULLS,
  LASTROW =               1458,
  ORDER (UniqueID ASC)
  )
 IF @@ERROR <> 0
  BEGIN
  PRINT 'Failed to import Distributors         '
  END
 ELSE
  BEGIN
  PRINT 'Successfully imported Distributors         '
  END
 END

IF @@ERROR = 0
 BEGIN
 COMMIT TRANSACTION
 PRINT 'Import successful'
 END
ELSE
 BEGIN
 ROLLBACK TRANSACTION
 PRINT 'Failed Import finalization'
 END

DBCC SHRINKDATABASE ([TripleCDataConversion], 0)

ALTER DATABASE [TripleCDataConversion]
SET  RECOVERY FULL
------------EDITED SAMPLE OF T-SQL script------------

The command to get this all working is ...

OSQL -U sa -P xxx -S yyy -d TripleCDataConversion -i D:\CCC2SQL\CCC_BULK.SQL -o D:\CCC2SQL\CCC_BULK.LOG -n -b -e

The log file for the time it all went wrong is ...


------------EDITED SAMPLE OF OSQL output------------
(1457 rows affected)
(1789 rows affected)
(136 rows affected)
Successful Import Startup
(136 rows affected)
Successfully imported CommentCodes
Msg 4864, Level 16, State 1, Server BANDACCESS, Line 1
Bulk insert data conversion error (type mismatch) for row 136, column
120 (NarrativeChangedDateTime).
Failed to import Customers
(1458 rows affected)
Successfully imported Distributors
Import successful
 DbId   FileId CurrentSize MinimumSize UsedPages   EstimatedPages
 ------ ------ ----------- ----------- ----------- --------------
     41      1      356672      131072      356544         356544
     41      2        2560        2560        2560           2560

(2 rows affected)
DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact your
system administrator.
------------EDITED SAMPLE OF OSQL output------------


As you can see the Bulk Insert for Customers failed. The message is only printed because @@ERROR <> 0.

But, a few lines later, I re-test @@ERROR and it is now 0! So the import continues with the next table and then commits the whole lot.

Why is @@ERROR getting reset? Can you only "look" at it once?

How do I get this working?

I COULD nest the bulk inserts, but this would be 54 levels deep and I suspect that wouldn't work.

HELP!

Richard Quadling.