How do I suppress the results from a stored procedure from within a stored procedure?

Question

I've got a stored procedure (we'll call it A) that calls another stored procedure (we'll call this one B). B includes a SELECT that I do not want to send back to the caller of A.

Here is some really rough pseudocode, but it should get the idea across.

PROCEDURE A     CURSOR         CALL B -- I WANT TO SUPPRESS THE RESULTS FROM B     END     SELECT * END PROCEDURE B     Do some interesting things     SELECT * END 

As you can see above, A calls B and B does some things that I want and returns results that I don't care about. Once A is done, it returns its own set of results.

How do I suppress the results from B in A? I'm using SQL Server 2005. I would prefer not to make changes to B because it is working and more complex than I want to mess with.

Answer 1

You can try something like this:

/* Assume this table matches the output of your procedure */ DECLARE @tmpNewValue TABLE (newvalue int) INSERT INTO @tmpNewValue  EXEC ProcedureB