BREAK

The BREAK statement is a control statement that allows you to leave a loop. Execution resumes at the first statement after the loop.

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• WHILE statement [T-SQL]
• CONTINUE statement
• BEGIN statement
• Stored procedures, triggers, batches, and user defined functions

In this example, the BREAK statement breaks the WHILE loop if the most expensive product has a price above $50. Otherwise, the loop continues until the average price is greater than or equal to $30:

WHILE ( SELECT AVG( UnitPrice ) FROM Products ) < $30
BEGIN
   UPDATE Products
   SET UnitPrice = UnitPrice + 2
   IF ( SELECT MAX(UnitPrice) FROM Products ) > $50
      BREAK
END