Return a single value and multiple OUT parameter in Stored Procedure

Question

I read an article about Stored Procedures which said:

A stored procedure can return a single values such as a number or text value or a result set

I am confused, because if we declare multiple OUT parameters, the we can have multiple output but it said that we can have only a single value?

EDIT:

This is The Article

Answer 1

In SQL Server, a stored procedure can actually return a value -- always an integer. This is usually a status value and is quite separate from the output parameters.

So you can can have:

execute @retval = usp_myproc @x1 output, @x2 output;

The returned value is generally not data, but a status.

Answer 2

That statement is not entirely correct.

There are three ways of returning data from a procedure to a calling program: result sets, output parameters, and return codes.

See Return Data from a Stored Procedure

This link will walk you through the 3 approaches.