hi keith.. can u pls tell me how did u format my code in the above question.. whenever i paste some code it doesnt show up or comes misaligned?

Hi sfdcfox, I did what you suggested. Basically insert first and throw in catch block. i see that in debug logs its inserting to the object.. but however end result is i dont see that record in database. we are basically throwing errors because this is backend code and we want to handle the exception in our UI. so I need to throw some exception to UI as well log a record(exception details) in this custom object..