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

From which client are you calling the stored procedure? Say it was from C#, and you're calling it like:

var com = myConnection.CreateCommand();
com.CommandText = "exec insertSomeData 1";
var read = com.ExecuteReader();

This will not yet retrieve the result from the server; you have to call Read() for that:

read.Read();
var myBigString = read[0].ToString();

So if you don't call Read, the XML won't leave the Sql Server. You can even call the procedure with ExecuteNonQuery:

var com = myConnection.CreateCommand();
com.CommandText = "exec insertSomeData 1";
com.ExecuteNonQuery();

Here the client won't even ask for the result of the select.