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Asked: 2026-05-25T10:23:29+00:00

I have a stored procedure on a hosted SQL 2008 instance. In these stored

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I have a stored procedure on a hosted SQL 2008 instance. In these stored procedures is logic checking for error. I then return an error code using RAISERROR(#####, ##, ###) if there is a problem. This works well enough, but there is a problem with catching such an error.

In Visual Studio 2010 I can catch the error with the correct Class and State, but never the correct Number. I will get a Message like the following in the exception:

Error #####, severity ##, state ###, was raised, but no message with that error number was found in sys.message. If error is larger than 50000, make sure the user-defined message is added using sp_addmessage.

So clearly the error is being raised correctly from the procedure, but the Number returned is always 18054. What am I doing wrong? I don’t care what the text of the message is, and I don’t have permission to run sp_addmessage anyway. However, I would like Number to be correct so I can properly catch the error in my application and handle it properly.

In case it matters, I’m calling the procedure using EF4.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Your error isn’t being raised correctly. The error you’re actually getting, 18054, is a system error which pretty much says,

    “Hey, you called raiserror() with an error number which doesn’t appear in [sys].[messages]!”

    If you don’t have access to add records to [sys].[messages] just specify your error number in the message text (msdn):

    RAISERROR (N'321433', -- Message text. Parse as int in exception handling.
           10, -- Severity
           1) -- State
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