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Why isn’t RAISERROR spelled RAISEERROR? Where is the second E? I could understand if it were some ancient keyword length constraint, but I wouldn’t expect it to be a nine-character limit.
Is RAIS or RROR a technical word such that “raise-error” is just a mis-reading? Are its (immediate) origins in a different language?
I’ve searched Google but not finding much on the subject.
Interesting – I’ve honestly never even noticed that before.
I would suspect that it’s an early oversight that was just never corrected, though I’m a little surprised that support wasn’t later added for RAISEERROR, with the mis-spelling left alone for compatibility.
Update: Aparently, there’s even some internal confusion about what it ought to be – Check out this connect request, though MSFT didn’t respond to it.