“The active result contains no fields” using PDO with MS SQL

Question

I am in the process of converting some old PHP pages to use PDO.

Below are two simplified queries (not my actual queries) to aid understanding of the problem I\'m ha

Answer 1

If you are using a stored procedure then use

SET NOCOUNT ON 

The problem is that the stored procedure returns a result containing the number of rows affected as the first result.

Microsoft Documentation