Eugene Elutin (4/17/2012)

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CELKO (4/16/2012)

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Yes, but it is bad programming. The PRINT is for debugging and not production code. Think about 100 people calling the same program. You do not want to directly to the end user; you send signals to the invoking host language programs and they interface with the end user.

Your mindset is still stuck ba

It depends! I've used RAISERROR ('My debugging text', 10,1) WITH NOWAIT in production to report progress of slow report generating stored procedure back to client application. Users loved it!

Let say your proc is very complex and goes over multiple steps which take some time. The above technique in conjunction with appropriate application code and sql driver, allows asynchronous status update!