Can you do a select on the results of a stored procedure in T-SQL

Question

select * from (EXEC sp_SomeStoredProc)

If you can't do this then what is stopping it from being added to the SQL standard or T-SQL?

Answer 1

You can't do this, however you can do it as an insert. e.g.

insert mytable
exec myStoredProcedure

Also, never name your stored procedures sp_xxxx. This is because SQL will always search in the system stored procedure area due to the sp_ before looking in the user stored procedures, leading to a small loss in performance that could add it to be fairly significant on a process that is run frequently.