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're looking for RAISERROR.

From MSDN:

Generates an error message and initiates error processing for the session. RAISERROR can either reference a user-defined message stored in the sys.messages catalog view or build a message dynamically. The message is returned as a server error message to the calling application or to an associated CATCH block of a TRY…CATCH construct.

CodeProject has a good article that also describes in-depth the details of how it works and how to use it.