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Re: One more thing I don't understand in large Stored Procedure

From "Bob Barrows" <reb01501@NOSPAMyahoo.com>
Newsgroups comp.databases.ms-sqlserver
Subject Re: One more thing I don't understand in large Stored Procedure
Date 2011-10-02 13:44 -0400
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Tony C. wrote:
> My Question is now:
>
> 1) Does a SELECT Statement ALWAYS return a result set?

No. If all a SELECT statement does is assign values to variables

SELECT @var=col1, @var2=col2 from table

it will not return a resultset. Otherwise, yes, it will always return a 
resultset, empty or otherwise.


> 2) Is there a way I can tell by looking at the code which select
> statements  should return results sets from and which not?

See above

>
> I have several SELECT statements that don't appear to return anything.
> Sometimes a SELECT statments sets a local variable and doesn't return
> anything and sometimes it does.....how do I tell the difference?

See above.
>

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One more thing I don't understand in large Stored Procedure Tony C. <me@here.com> - 2011-10-02 12:34 -0500
  Re: One more thing I don't understand in large Stored Procedure "Bob Barrows" <reb01501@NOSPAMyahoo.com> - 2011-10-02 13:44 -0400
    Re: One more thing I don't understand in large Stored Procedure Tony C. <me@here.com> - 2011-10-02 12:47 -0500
    Re: One more thing I don't understand in large Stored Procedure Tony C. <me@here.com> - 2011-10-02 13:05 -0500
      Re: One more thing I don't understand in large Stored Procedure Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2011-10-02 20:31 +0200
        Re: One more thing I don't understand in large Stored Procedure Tony C. <me@here.com> - 2011-10-02 13:32 -0500
          Re: One more thing I don't understand in large Stored Procedure Henk van den Berg <me@myplace.net> - 2011-10-02 21:28 +0200
      Re: One more thing I don't understand in large Stored Procedure "Bob Barrows" <reb01501@NOSPAMyahoo.com> - 2011-10-02 15:25 -0400
        Re: One more thing I don't understand in large Stored Procedure Tony C. <me@here.com> - 2011-10-02 15:31 -0500

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