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Asked: 2026-06-13T17:16:41+00:00

In SQL SERVER 2008 how can i return error messages as select statement LIKE

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In SQL SERVER 2008 how can i return error messages as select statement

LIKE

SELECT ** FROM emp

Will return the following error

    Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
    Incorrect syntax near '*'.

i just need the 2nd line to be returned as SELECT statement

I’ve tried @@ERROR but looks like it return just the error code

What i’m doing is validating sql statements from the client side, so if there is a way of doing this with out hitting the server this will be good too i’m using VB

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  1. Editorial Team

    You do see Incorrect syntax near '*'., don’t you? That means it was returned!

    You may want to know how to retrieve the error message(s) text, and the answer is that you can only capture error that occur during execution (syntax errors are compilation and cannot be captured inside the same batch) and you must use the BEGIN … TRY/ BEGIN … CATCH block. Inside a catch block the ERROR_MESSAGE() function will return the text of the exception caught.

    So, to give an example base don your case, wrap the code in a BEGIN TRY/BEGIN CATCH and have the incorrect syntax in a different batch:

    begin try
    exec sp_executesql N'SELECT ** FROM emp';
    SELECT NULL;
end try
begin catch
    select ERROR_MESSAGE();
end catch
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