How to handle the error when a step in the SQL job fails

I would just create an Error table to house the error functions, and insert them from the TRY/CATCH, similar to what's in this link:
http://www.sqlservernation.com/home/using-trycatch-in-sql-server.html


even better, the uspLogError procedure writes error details into the ErrorLog table.  you can use this within each of your jobs steps as the action upon failure.  then you can send an email with the error_line or error_number, with the 'JobName Failure' in the subject ine.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms179296.aspx

  Actually the job step does not execute a stored procedure. It executes an SSIS package.  When the package returns with an exit code other than 0 it is a failure. Hence the job fails . I need to trap this error and log into the database.

Experts, could you please help me in achieving this.

Assuming it's a SQL job you can do that directly in the job step under the "Advanced" like in the attached picture - either log to a table and/or include step output in the history and you can also send emil notifications on failure. If you need to log from the batch (cmd file) that does the FTP then you may need additional code and run SQL command shell to populate the table.

Ok, in that case the SSIS step that is executed need to include a BEGIN/TRY/CATCH set of SQL commands as "dbasql" suggested. Also you can configure the SSIS to do the Logging including in the Event long on that server.

Integration Services Log Providers

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms140246(v=sql.90).aspx

   The requirement is to log the error in the table created in the database.  I guess the "Log to table"  option under the Notifactions  does not help me here.  Also the SSIS package is used to execute a batch file , so i would not be able to include a  TRY/CATCH there.

The solution partially resolved my problem.