Thanks, aneeshattingal!
Unfortunately I don't have the ability to change the exising procedure. So turning the print statements into output variables won't work. is there any other way to do this?
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Browse All TopicsI'm executing a stored procedure with a t-sql query and would like to capture the 'print' output produced by the called procedure to a variable. Is this possible? If so, how?
Example:
create procedure calledproc as
begin
print 'this is what we want to capture'
end
go
exec calledproc; -- here is where I would like to capture the print output of the called procedure to a variable.
Thanks in advance!
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by: aneeshattingalPosted on 2009-11-06 at 12:25:23ID: 25762729
you have to either use an output variable or a select statement to do that
create procedure calledproc
@res varchar(1000) output = null
as
begin
SET @Res = 'this is what we want to capture'
end
go
declare @outputValue varchar(1000)
Exec calledproc @outputValue out
select @outputValue