“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

Answer 2

The PDO engine sees this query as returning two result sets (the older mssql engine probably just ignored all but the last query in an overall query string). I have managed to make it work by skipping over the first result set (the temporary table) using the following command

$statement->nextRowset();

And then using $statement->fetch(); as normal

Answer 3

If you are using a StoredProcedure and doing something as:

DB::select("EXEC [storedprocedure] $param1,$param2;");

As per above, the PDO expects the DB::select statement to return some data. But as your StoredProcedure does not return any data, you can change DB::select TO DB::update as belows:

DB::update("EXEC [storedprocedure] $param1,$param2;");

After this the error should no longer appear.

Answer 4

I ran into this issue and the above answers helped, but the answers here assume things:

1. You have access to modfy the sproc with SET NOCOUNT ON and you want to do this
2. You're sure you need to move to the next rowset $statement->nextRowset();

In my case I am using a generic method to pull back data from multiple sprocs where I may or may not have this issue and needed to check before incrementing the rowset.

I used the following:

while($stmt->columnCount() === 0 && $stmt->nextRowset()) {
    // Advance rowset until we get to a rowset with data
}

if($stmt->columnCount() > 0) {
    // We found something with data, do stuff.
    // Code here
}

Hopefully this helps someone else running into a similar issue.

Answer 5

I am using Laravel5 in this version you should execute

DB::select('SET NOCOUNT ON; EXEC stored_procedure'. $param1.','...$paramN);

It worked perfect.

Answer 6

I am using laravel5 and this is how I fixed the issue;

DB::select("SET ANSI_NULLS ON; SET ANSI_WARNINGS ON;EXEC [storedprocedure] $param1,$param2;");