TSQL - How to use GO inside of a BEGIN .. END block?

Question

I am generating a script for automatically migrating changes from multiple development databases to staging/production. Basically, it takes a bunch of change-scripts, and m

Answer 1

You can enclose the statements in BEGIN and END instead of the GO inbetween

IF COL_LENGTH('Employees','EMP_IS_ADMIN') IS NULL --Column does not exist
BEGIN
    BEGIN
        ALTER TABLE dbo.Employees ADD EMP_IS_ADMIN BIT
    END

    BEGIN
        UPDATE EMPLOYEES SET EMP_IS_ADMIN = 0
    END
END

(Tested on Northwind database)

Edit: (Probably tested on SQL2012)