Question

I’m running a set of sql queries and they are not reporting the row affect until all the queries have ran. Is there anyway i can get incremental feedback.

Example:

   DECLARE @HowManyLastTime int

SET @HowManyLastTime = 1

WHILE @HowManyLastTime <> 2400000
 BEGIN

      SET @HowManyLastTime = @HowManyLastTime +1
    print(@HowManyLastTime)
 END

This doesn’t show the count till the loop has finished. How do i make it show the count as it runs?

Answer 1

To flush recordcounts and other data to the client, you’ll want to use RaisError with NOWAIT. Related questions and links:

• PRINT statement in T-SQL
• http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/mladenp/archive/2007/10/01/SQL-Server-Notify-client-of-progress-in-a-long-running.aspx

In SSMS this will work as expected. With other clients, you might not get a response from the client until the query execution is complete.