Raise an error manually in T-SQL to jump to BEGIN CATCH block

Question

Is it possible to raise an error in a stored procedure manually to stop execution and jump to BEGIN CATCH block? Some analog of throw new Exception() i

Answer 1

You could use THROW (available in SQL Server 2012+):

THROW 50000, 'Your custom error message', 1
THROW , , 

MSDN THROW (Transact-SQL)

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