To day i was struggling to catch a error inside a stored procedure using MySQL. Faced lot of difficulties and still not found good result. There is no equal function in MySql to RAISERROR in MSSQL. As a solution for this what we can we do is, we can call a function as this way CALL RaiseError(); There for because of the none existence of this function this will be raise an error. So it is very logical..:-) So procedure will be work very fine.....Great... Example: DROP PROCEDURE IF EXISTS `dbname`.`procedureName` $$ CREATE DEFINER=`root`@`%` PROCEDURE `edbname`.`procedureName`( pId bigint, pName varchar(50) BEGIN IF EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM tableName WHERE ((Id = pId) ) THEN UPDATE tableName SET Name = pName, WHERE (Id = pId); ELSE CALL RaiseError(); /*There is no RaiseError metho in MySql. Because of that reason here call nonexistent method which is 'Rais...