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

Yes you should be able to get the message to print immediately if you use RAISERROR:

RAISERROR('Hello',10,1) WITH NOWAIT