RODBC Temporary Table Issue when connecting to MS SQL Server

Question

I am running R on unix and I am using the RODBC package to connect to MS SQL server. I can execute a query that returns results fine with the package, but if I use a tempor

Answer 1

The RODBC driver seems to think that when SQL Server returns any count of rows that the entire statement is complete. So you need to set nocount on at the beginning of your statement or stored procedure that is called.

set nocount on

This allowed me to use a stored procedure that was using temporary table in R.