Question

I need to surpress messages output from a SQL function. As in 1 row affected. I can’t use SET NOCOUNT as it’s invalid in a function.

Anyone know a way to do this?

Thanks.

EDIT

I was trying to limit the background information in an attemp to boil the problem down to it’s essence. But I’ll expand. I’m using MSSQL2005 and NHibernate to insert a record in to a SQL table. On the table I have a computed column that runs the function which is reporting back 1 row affected.

I didn’t really want to edit the NHibernate part of the process but it may be unavoidable.

Answer 1

A function that returns “(1 row affected)” will be part of a bigger query in a batch. It makes no sense to have SET NOCOUNT ON in the function

You need to do this:

SET NOCOUNT ON;
SELECT * FROM MyUDFTVF();

Note a stored procedure is simply a wrapper for this

CREATE PROC Whatever
AS
    SET NOCOUNT ON;
    SELECT * FROM MyUDFTVF();
GO

SET NOCOUNT ON is normally needed to stop triggers etc breaking client code: why do you need it here?