Question

ALTER PROC SP_SampleInner
AS
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM TB_Whatever

Other procedure

ALTER RPROC SP_SampleOuter
AS
DECLARE @count int
EXEC @count = SP_SampleInner

IF @count > 0
BEGIN
SELECT 1
END
ELSE
BEGIN
SELECT 0
END

What I want is SP_SampleOuter returns more than one table because of EXEC SP_SampleInner (I think). How could I control returning tables/values?

Answer 1

Try this approach:

ALTER PROC SP_SampleOuter
AS
DECLARE @count int
EXEC @count = SP_SampleInner

IF @count > 0
BEGIN
SELECT @count as Ctr,1
END
ELSE
BEGIN
SELECT @count as Ctr,0
END

Simply add the count variable as the first field you return