RE: How To Get Timer Like Funcationality in SSMS to Auto execute a Query every N incremenets

Lowell

SSC Guru

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October 29, 2012 at 2:02 pm

#1553897

you can use a neat trick with RAISERROR to get an immediate result inside the loop, if that's what you want/need.

a basic example:

--print error immediately in batch

declare @i int,

@err varchar(100)

--set @i=1

while 0=0

begin

SET @err = 'Progress So Far: Step ' + convert(varchar(30),ISNULL(@i,1)) + ' completed.'

raiserror (@err,0,1) with nowait

waitfor delay '00:00:02'

set @i=ISNULL(@i,1) + 1

end

Lowell

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