How to Suppress the SELECT Output of a Stored Procedure called from another Stored Procedure in SQL Server?

Question

I\'m not talking about doing a \"SET NOCOUNT OFF\". But I have a stored procedure which I use to insert some data into some tables. This procedure creates a xml response s

Answer 1

Man, this is seriously a case of a computer doing what you told it to do instead of what you wanted it to do.

If you don't want it to return results, then don't ask it to return results. Refactor that stored procedure into two:

CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[insertSomeData] (@myParam int) AS
BEGIN
DECLARE @reply varchar(2048)

--... Do a bunch of inserts/updates...

EXEC SelectOutput
END
GO

CREATE PROCEDURE SelectOutput AS
BEGIN
SET @reply = ''
SELECT @reply
END