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Asked: 2026-05-20T02:46:47+00:00

I encountered a stored procedure that had the following error handling block immediately after

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I encountered a stored procedure that had the following error handling block immediately after an update attempt. The following were the last lines of the SP.

Is there any benefit of doing this? It appears to me as though this code is just rethrowing the same error that it caught without any value added and that the code would presumably behave 100% the same if the Try Block were ommited entirely.

Would there be ANY difference in the behavior of the resulting SP if the TRY block were ommitted?

BEGIN CATCH

SELECT @ErrMsg = ERROR_MESSAGE(), @ErrSev = ERROR_SEVERITY(), @ErrState = ERROR_STATE()
        RAISERROR (@ErrMsg, @ErrSev, @ErrState)

END CATCH
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  1. Editorial Team

    Barring the fact that the “line error occured on” part of any message returned would reference the RAISERROR line and not the line the error actually occured on, there will be no difference. The main reason to do this is as @Chris says, to allow you to programmatically use/manipulate the error data.

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