Sleep Command in T-SQL?

Question

Is there to way write a T-SQL command to just make it sleep for a period of time? I am writing a web service asynchronously and I want to be able to run some tests to see i

Answer 1

You can also "WAITFOR" a "TIME":

    RAISERROR('Im about to wait for a certain time...', 0, 1) WITH NOWAIT
    WAITFOR TIME '16:43:30.000'
    RAISERROR('I waited!', 0, 1) WITH NOWAIT