MS SQL: Suppress return value of stored procedure called in stored procedure

Question

I think I have the same problem as kcrumley describes in the question \"Problem calling stored procedure from another stored procedure via classic ASP\". However his questio

Answer 1

Its not the NOCOUNT thats causing this, your stored procedures have a select each so each one is coming in its own result set. This could be avoided by changing your first stored procedure to use output parameters to pass the number 1 back rather than doing a select. The second stored procedure could then examine the output parameter to get the data it needs to run.

Try something like this

CREATE PROCEDURE Proc1
(
    @RetVal INT OUTPUT
)
AS
SET NOCOUNT ON
SET @RetVal = 1

CREATE PROCEDURE Proc2
AS
SET NOCOUNT ON
DECLARE @RetVal int
EXEC    [dbo].[Proc1]
        @RetVal = @RetVal OUTPUT
SELECT  @RetVal as N'@RetVal'