Posted by Jochem Maas on 10/11/05 21:52

Chris Boget wrote:
> Looking through the documentation, I see that I can use
>
> mssql_init()
> mssql_bind()
> mssql_execute()
>
> to execute those stored procedures that have parameters.
> But what about those SPs which just return a value? If I
> have the following SP
>
> CREATE PROCEDURE MySP
> AS
> DECLARE @resultCode int
> SELECT @resultCode = 539
> RETURN @resultCode
> GO
>
> And execute the above as follows
>
> DECLARE @result int;
> EXEC @result = MySP;
> PRINT @result;

in firebird I would do something like:

SELECT result FROM MySP

maybe that works for you in mssql?

>
> within Query Analyzer, how do I emulate this using the mssql_*()
> functions? Whenever I try to just run the EXEC, I keep getting an
> error message saying that I have to declare the @result variable.
> I've tried to declare the variable in a seperate mssql_query() call
> but that doesn't seem to have an effect. So how can I do this w/o

is it possible to start a transaction first then run the 2 queries?

> getting an error w/r/t variable declaration?
>
> thnx,
> Christoph
>

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