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

Question

Reference: SQL Server

I have a stored procedure with a while loop in it and I want some messages to be printed after every 500 loops.

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Answer 1

I'm sure you can use RAISERROR ... WITH NOWAIT

If you use severity 10 it's not an error. This also provides some handy formatting eg %s, %i and you can use state too to track where you are.