Question

I’m wondering if this is a good practice or not. I have a database with a few stored procedures which I run using C# application.

Is it a good practice to return messages from stored procedures which can directly be shown to the application user?

For example:

CREATE PROCEDURE CheckParam

@Param int,
AS
 BEGIN

IF (@Parem > 0)
 BEGIN              
    SELECT 'Parameter is greater than 0'
 END
ELSE SELECT 'Parameter is smaller than 0' 
END

Answer 1

It would generally be considered best practice to have the code layer set the message text as this allows future maintainers of the code to clearly follow the intended logic.