How can I get the actual stored procedure line number from an error message?

Question

When I use SQL Server and there\'s an error, the error message gives a line number that has no correlation to the line numbers in the stored procedure. I assume that the dif

Answer 1

In TSQL / Stored Procedures

You may get an error such as:

Msg 206, Level 16, State 2, Procedure myproc, Line 177 [Batch Start Line 7]

This means that the error is on line 177 in the batch. Not 177 in the SQL. You should see what line number your batch starts on, in my case [7], and then you add that value to the line number to find what statement is wrong