Invalid PDO query does not return an error

Question

The second SQL statement below returns an error in phpMyAdmin:

SET @num=2000040;
INSERT INTO artikel( artikel_nr, lieferant_nr, bezeichnung_1, bezeichnung_1 )
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Answer 1

By default PDOStatement::execute() doesn't throw any exception, it simply returns false on error. You have to set error handling to PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION through db->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION).