Question

If you have a stored procedure that deletes record in a table, do you have to put a return statement and why?

I have always never put a return statement, but I just saw a snippet that has a return statement.

Sample:

DELETE 
FROM TableName
WHERE TableId = @Id

RETURN

Answer 1

No, an empty return statement is optional. The only time it would be required is if you needed to return a value from the procedure, then you would need to either create a result set with a select statement or return a value.

In cases like yours the return statement is purely optional.