Question

Using Microsoft SQL Server. Running a stored procedure that returns ‘No column name’ as the column name.

Is there a way to see what this column name is? Or to have the stored procedure return a column name?

Answer 1

You have to use an alias in your stored procedure to give a name to the column.

Ex:

CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[GetMaxPrc]
AS
BEGIN
    SELECT MAX(TOTAL) AS TOTAL 
    FROM MYTABLE -- it will return TOTAL instead of NoColumnName
END

If you don’t specify the alias it will return nocolumnname