Unreachable code, but reachable with an exception

Question

This code is part of an application that reads from and writes to an ODBC connected database. It creates a record in the database and then checks if a record has been succes

Answer 1

the finally block would be executed, then would execute the return false; at the bottom.

Wrong. finally doesn't swallow the exception. It honors it and the exception will be thrown as normal. It will only execute the code in the finally before the block ends (with or without an exception).

If you want the exception to be swallowed, you should use a catch block with no throw in it.