How to use the PRINT statement to track execution as stored procedure is running?

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I have a stored procedure with a while loop in it and I want some messages to be printed after every loops...Procedure Executed Successfully....But I want to Print Message after every Loop...

Create Procedure [dbo].[XXXX_SP]
(
@XXX DateTime,
@YYY varchar(10) )
As
Begin
Set @TotCnt=ceiling(@TotCnt)
    While @Cnt= @TotCnt
    Begin
	Print 'File Processing Started '+Str(@Cnt)
Execute XXXXXX  ()       
 Set @SqlQry =Select  b.Zone,b.Division,a.* into  from test a left join final b on a.[aaa]=b.aaa
     Exec (@SqlQry)
     Set @Cnt=@Cnt+1
    End
End

Posted 28-May-13 2:12am

Saranya Boopathi

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CHill60 · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-28T02:23:00

Instead of using PRINT use a feature of RAISEERROR called NOWAIT e.g.

SQL

RAISERROR 'File Processing Stated ' + Str(@Cnt), 0, 1) WITH NOWAIT

Using the 0 means that sql treats the "error" like a straightforward message.

These links give more details
http://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/1660/using-the-nowait-option-with-the-sql-server-raiserror-statement/[^]
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178592.aspx[^]
http://www.sommarskog.se/error-handling-I.html[^]

[Edit] - Another technique I've used in the past is to have a "logging table" on the same database ... in this instance replace the print with insert into logtable values('File Processing Started' + Str(@Cnt)) - and consider either clearing the table down each time or using having timestamp column autogenerated