How do we tell sqlcmd to continue "on error" with next batch?

Question

Any ideas on how to accomplish this?

USE [db_name]
BEGIN TRANSACTION
...TONS OF INSERTS
COMMIT;
RAISERROR (..) WITH NOWAIT;  //If error continue with next batch

BEGIN TRANSACTION
...TONS OF INSERTS
COMMIT;
RAISERROR (..) WITH NOWAIT;

...

Answer 1

The behavior of batch interruption on error is a SQL Server (ie. backend) option and is governed by error severity. There is no way to change the server behavior, errors that interrupt the batch will always interrupt the batch, period.

The behavior of file continuation (run the next GO delimited batch after error) is a sqlcmd option and is controlled by the -b switch. By default is ON (meaning sqlcmd continues with the next batch).