SET NOCOUNT ON usage

Question

Inspired by this question where there are differing views on SET NOCOUNT...

Should we use SET NOCOUNT ON for SQL Server? If not, why not?

Answer 1

SET NOCOUNT ON; Above code will stop the message generated by sql server engine to fronted result window after the DML/DDL command execution.

Why we do it? As SQL server engine takes some resource to get the status and generate the message, it is considered as overload to the Sql server engine.So we set the noncount message on.