Question

I need help to return the ‘xmlstring’ (varchar(MAX)) from a Stored Procedure. It works fine if I test to count the number of ‘xmlstring’, but how do I get the actual string returned insted?

ALTER PROCEDURE dbo.sp_test
AS
DECLARE @Ret int
SELECT @Ret = COUNT(xmlstring) FROM database WHERE (id = 1)
RETURN @Ret


I wan’t to do something like this, but it’s not correct:

ALTER PROCEDURE dbo.sp_test
AS
DECLARE @Ret varchar(MAX)
SELECT @Ret = TOP (1) xmlstring FROM database WHERE (id = 1)
RETURN @Ret


Answer 1

Yeah something like that:

ALTER PROCEDURE dbo.sp_test AS
DECLARE @Ret varchar(MAX)
SELECT  TOP (1) xmlstring FROM database WHERE (id = 1)

You don’t need a return unless it’s a function

The select statement will be returned, and you can put more than one, those are call ResultSet