Oracle PL/SQL – Raise User-Defined Exception With Custom SQLERRM

Yes. You just have to use the RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR function. If you also want to name your exception, you’ll need to use the EXCEPTION_INIT pragma in order to associate the error number to the named exception. Something like

SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf

  1  declare
  2    ex_custom EXCEPTION;
  3    PRAGMA EXCEPTION_INIT( ex_custom, -20001 );
  4  begin
  5    raise_application_error( -20001, 'This is a custom error' );
  6  exception
  7    when ex_custom
  8    then
  9      dbms_output.put_line( sqlerrm );
 10* end;
SQL> /
ORA-20001: This is a custom error

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

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