Fabio,
I didn't see that you wrote anything to me. It might have gotten lost in all the other replies.

Einar

>>>>>>Can I raise an exception from within a SP? If yes, how?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Einar
>>>>>>
>>>>>>UPDATE: Is RAISEERROR the correct way to go about this?
>>>>>
>>>>>Yes.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks Sergey. It seems like I will keep you busy today :)
>>>
>>>Warning: RAISEERROR doesn't stop the SP execution
>>
>>Thanks for warning me Fabio. That was my follow-up question for Sergey. (I guess I kinda noticed that because in the documentation they put ROLLBACK after RAISERROR).
>>How would you solve the problem of getting the SP to stop execution? Would you use GOTO?
>>
>>Something like this:
>>

>>UPDATE myTable SET Name=@Name1 WHERE Id=@Id1
>>IF @@ROWCOUNT=0
>>BEGIN
>>  RAISERROR('Error 1',16,1)
>>  GOTO WhereRollBackIs
>>END
>>
>>UPDATE myTable SET Name=@Name2 WHERE Id=@Id2
>>IF @@ROWCOUNT=0
>>BEGIN
>>  RAISERROR('Error 2',16,1)
>>  GOTO WhereRollBackIs
>>END
>>
>>UPDATE myTable SET Name=@Name3 WHERE Id=@Id3
>>IF @@ROWCOUNT=0
>>BEGIN
>>  RAISERROR('Error 3',16,1)
>>  GOTO WhereRollBackIs
>>END
>>
>>COMMIT TRANSACTION
>>
>RETURN
>
>>WhereRollBackIs:
>>  ROLLBACK TRANSACTION
>>

>>
>>Please let me know if you see anything (really) bad.
>>
>>Einar