Question

I’ve got several T-SQL Stored Procedures, where I am using RAISERROR with a Severity parameter of 0 to print progress messages to the output window. I am already using WITH NOWAIT to ensure the messages get printed immediately.

However, no matter what string i pass to RAISERROR, only the first character is being printed to the screen.

For example:

RAISERROR('Profiles Complete', 0, 1) WITH NOWAIT

only prints a single ‘P’ to the screen.

Does anybody know why this is or how I can fix it?

Thanks very much,

Martyn.

Answer 1

When a variable is declared as char with no length, the length defaults to 1.

DECLARE @c char
SET @c = 'Profiles Complete'
PRINT @c

Output:

P