Retrieve data from stored procedure which has multiple result sets

Question

Given a stored procedure in SQL Server which has multiple select statements, is there a way to work with those results separately while calling the procedure?

Answer 1

It seems like there's no good simple way to do this, without a hack or a major paradigm shift. It looks like the best way is to just split out the original procs and end up with one more proc than before:

Old way:

create procedure dbo.GetSomething
as
begin
    select * from dbo.Person;
    select * from dbo.Car;
end;

New way:

create procedure dbo.GetPeople
as
begin
    select * from dbo.Person;
end;

create procedure dbo.GetCars
as
begin
    select * from dbo.Car;
end;

-- This gives the same result as before
create procedure dbo.GetSomething
as
begin
    exec dbo.GetPeople;
    exec dbo.GetCars;
end;

Then when I'm in a different proc and need both result sets, I'd just have to call them one at a time.