Powershell Try Catch invoke-sqlcmd

Question

I am having problems catching an error in PowerShell when a connection fails to a SQL Server using Invoke-Sqlcmd. This is some generic code to demonstrate the issue:

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Answer 1

Try

CLS
$server = "Localhost/fake"
try
{
    Invoke-Sqlcmd -Query "SELECT DB_NAME() as [Database]" -Server $server
}
catch
{
    $_ | Out-Null
    Write-Host "Error connecting to server " $server
}

This will capture the error and redirect it to null and display your write-host