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I have a small stored procedure that needs to return a count of records (a single value). What is better to use? A RETURN to return the result or an OUTPUT parameter to return the result?
I’m using C# / .Net to ‘talk’ to SQL server.
Use an output parameter.
It is less resource intensive to deal with a scalar parameter than a dataset via SELECT (or an OUTPUT clause etc) in the client
And RETURN is limited to
intdatatype. This doesn’t matter here, but generally RETURN would be used for status and errors