>>I have a simple stored procedure that declares a variable @ErrorMessage at the top as
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>>declare @ErrorMessage AS VARCHAR(100)
>>SET @ErrorMessage = ''
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>>At the end of the procedure I return this value as
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>>RETURN @ErrorMessage
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>>The value is set to the @ErrorMessage in CATCH block. Then I test this procesure in a query window as following
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>>declare @retval as varchar(100)
>>EXECUTE @retval = myproced param1, param2
>>print @retval
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>>But if there is no problem within the procedure, the value of @retval showing in the query window is 0 (zero). Why not empty string?
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>Return values in stored procedures are used only for the status of the SP (succeeded/failed) and they can only be integers. For everything else you need to use OUTPUT parameters.
Thank you. I will try the Output.
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