Question

I am running an insert query from c# using:

string affectedRows = myCommand.ExecuteNonQuery().ToString();

However the query that I am running does two things. It first inserts stuff into a temp table, and then inserts stuff into the real-table.

Eg:

declare @t table (a int)
insert into @t 
values(1)

insert into MyTable
select * from @t

Since it does two inserts, my affectedrows will be 2.
The question is how to i get either the last result of the insert, or perhaps an array/list of results?

Dividing by 2 won’t help me, as there maybe multiple queries, etc and it won’t always be 2. the above is just an example. Thanks

Answer 1

Just change the SET NOCOUNT statement to view the lines that really matter:

example:

set nocount off

declare @t table (a int)
insert into @t 
values(1)

set nocount on

declare @MyTable table (b int)

insert into @MyTable
select * from @t

See the Messages tab in SSMS.