Borislav,

Thanks for the time. Unless someone else can think of something we'll just deal with it on the web side. We've thought of using select count(*) from openrowset() but that'd force us to embed servernames and login credentials into the SP and that's worse in our environment.

>Sorry,
>I couldn't figured out how to get rid of immediate recordset w/o redirecting it to something else. If the first S P doesn't return so many fields use a table variable to insert that recordset. If you find something more beautiful, please let me know.