>>>>I have a stored proc that accepts three parameters - then does a whole lot of processing before doing the final select statement - which I'd like to return as a recordset to VB.
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>>>>However, the recordset is not being created in VB - I think I may have to declare the select statement as the return 'value' or something ... I've called simple SP's before that only had "select * from whatever" and the recordset was returned without a problem.
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>>>Maybe your SP returns more than one recordset? Try to run it in QA and see what it returns.
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>>The SP only 'returns' one recordset in QA - however, within the SP there are a number of select from ... into table variables. Also, for testing purposes I have a few 'Print @Variable' statements - which do show up in the messages tab in QA - but there is only the one set of records showing up in the grid view.
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>Do you have SET NOCOUNT ON at the beginning of your SP? How do you call that SP from VB?

Sergey, SET NOCOUNT ON was the answer - thanks again for your assistance.