How to see progress of running SQL stored procedures?

Question

Consider the following stored procedure..

CREATE PROCEDURE SlowCleanUp (@MaxDate DATETIME)
AS
BEGIN
    PRINT \'Deleting old data Part 1/3...\'
    DELETE FR         


        

Answer 1

If you use RAISERROR with a severity of 10 or less, and use the NOWAIT option, it will send an informational message to the client immediately:

RAISERROR ('Deleting old data Part 1/3' , 0, 1) WITH NOWAIT