I am making a windows service to be able to run operations on a sql server database (insert, edit, etc) and invoke Stored Procs.
However, is there a way for me to know the type of the SP? When invoking from C#, I need to knof if it is returning 1 value, or more, or none (so I can use executereader, scalar, etc)?
Thanks
SqlCommand.ExecuteNonQuery()
. But it's valid to run it as SqlCommand.ExecuteReader()
. The only difference is that the first call to DataReader.Read()
returns false
for a stored procedure that does not return a resultset. SqlCommand.ExecuteReader()
. The first call to DataReader.Read()
will return true
. So you can use ExecuteReader
in all three scenarios.
Though it seems unnecessary for your question, you can retrieve meta-data for the resultset using the fmtonly option. The setting causes the statement to return the column information only; no rows of data are returned. So you could run:
SET FMTONLY ON;
EXEC dbo.YourProc @par1 = 1;
SET FMTONLY OFF;
Executing this as a CommandText
from C#, you can examine the column names the stored procedure would return.
To verify that a stored procedure run in this way does not produce any side effects, I ran the following test case:
create table table1 (id int)
go
create procedure YourProc(@par1 int)
as
insert into table1 (id) values (@par1)
go
SET FMTONLY ON;
EXEC dbo.YourProc @par1 = 1;
SET FMTONLY OFF;
go
select * from table1
This did not return any rows. So the format-only option makes sure no actual updates or inserts occur.
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