Question

I have a procedure that inserts N records and then updates N records. ExecuteNonQuery on that procedure returns 2N. Is there a way to return only number of records updated, i.e. affected in the statement run last?

Thanks.

Answer 1

You could try with SET NOCOUNT OFF/ON inside the stored procedure

You place a SET NOCOUNT ON when the sp starts, thus disabling the count of inserted records, apply the SET NOCOUNT OFF just before the update part of the sp.

Here a reference to MSDN