Question

SQL Server 2005 BOL says about BREAK:

Exits the innermost loop in a WHILE or IF…ELSE statement.

I don’t understand this part about IF…ELSE. It looks like you can put BREAK inside IF. Actually BREAK works only inside WHILE, and control flow pass after loop’s END. BREAK not in a WHILE context fires error, and that’s completely OK.

My question is – why documentation mention IF…ELSE?

BTW, SQL Server 2000 BOL says only this:

Exits the innermost WHILE loop.

Answer 1

SQL 2008 BOL says:

Exits the innermost loop in a WHILE
statement or an IF…ELSE statement
inside a WHILE loop.

which is probably what the SQL 2005 documentation should have said.