Ignore errors in SSDT Post-Deployment script

Question

I need to populate codelists after publishing my database using SSDT. So I've added new post-deployment script to the project and from it I call another scripts using SQLCMD :r command, each inserting data to one table. But if table is already filled, there are primary key constraints violated and whole setup is broken.

How can I suppress errors in post-deployment script? SQLCMD command :on error ignore is not supported.

Answer 1

Why don't you modify your script to avoid reinserting existing values? Using a common table expression, you would have something resembling:

;with cte as (select *, row_number() over (partition by ... order by ...) as Row from ... )
  insert into ...
    select ...
    from cte where not exists (...) and cte.Row = 1

Cannot be more explicit without having your table definition ...

Answer 2

Here's a good example of how to achieve what you're looking for using the MERGE statement instead of raw INSERTs.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ssdt/archive/2012/02/02/including-data-in-an-sql-server-database-project.aspx