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>>Hi Sergey, that is exactly what I'm doing and see a MessageBox with five lines of information - Index #0 - 'The error' - LineNumber: 12 - Source: >NET.SqlClient Data Provider - Procedure: MySP. What I would like, is , to just see the message text without all the other stuff
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>The RAISERROR only generates an error according to parameter passed. The error is passed back to the client. How the error is displayed depends on the client side application that processes the error.

He Sergey, my bad - see my reply to Viv - many thanks for your time