How to get row count of a stored procedure?

Question

I have a stored procedure which accepts a Client number and returns certain data. I have another stored procedure which internally calls the first one and needs to use the Row count from the first stored procedure.
Is there anywhere I can achieve this without using a temporary table (to get the result set) or using an OUT parameter in the first stored procedure.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Since you already calling your stored procedure from first one, you already have ability to get number of rows returned by using @@ROWCOUNT function. Below is example of using `@@RowCount

CREATE PROC test1
AS
BEGIN
    SELECT *
    FROM sys.tables
END

CREATE PROC Test2
AS
BEGIN
    SET NOCOUNT ON;
    EXEC Test1
    PRINT @@ROWCOUNT
END 

EXEC Test2

In my example I just printed that value out, but you can just as simply assign that to a variable in second procedure and use it for something else.