“Operation is not allowed when the object is closed” when executing stored procedure

Question

This is my stored procedure, and when I am calling it from my classic ASP code, I am getting the error:

Operation is not allowed when the object is c

Answer 1

If, for whatever reason the stored procedure does not return a result set, empty or otherwise, the recordset object will not be open, so:

if rs.state = adStateOpen then x = rs.recordcount