Can I search stored procedure results?

Question

Let's say I have a stored procedure which returns a large set of data. Can I write another query to filter the result of stored procedure?

For example:

select * from
EXEC xp_readerrorlog
where LogDate = '2011-02-15'

Answer 1

You would need to first insert the results of the stored procedure on a table, and then query those results.

create table #result (LogDate datetime, ProcessInfo varchar(20),Text text)

INSERT INTO #Result
EXEC xp_readerrorlog

SELECT *
FROM #Result
WHERE datepart(yy,LogDate) = '2012'

Answer 2

Does returning the error log for just an entire day make the result any more useful? I think it will still be full of useless entries. If you're looking for specific events, why not use one of the filter parameters for xp_readerrorlog? The following wil return all rows in the current log that contain the string 'fail':

EXEC xp_readerrorlog 0, 1, 'fail';