Stored procedures with output parameters

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Stored procedures with output parameters

dobinf

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December 29, 2008 at 5:10 am

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Hello everyone,
I am using a stored procedure with output parameters, But i get the value of the output parameter as Zero. I have checked in query analyser and i get a value greater than zero,but in code i get the value as zero, Can anyone help me. the code is as follows
conn.Open();
SqlDataReader dr;
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand("GetAllImages", conn);
cmd.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
//Create a SqlParameter object to hold the output parameter value
SqlParameter img_count = new SqlParameter("@img_count",SqlDbType.Int);
//IMPORTANT - must set Direction as Output
img_count.Direction = ParameterDirection.Output;
cmd.Parameters.Add(img_count);
dr = cmd.ExecuteReader();
int intCountOfImages = Convert.ToInt32(img_count.Value);
The SQL statement is as follows:
set ANSI_NULLS ON
set QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
go
ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[GetAllImages]
@img_count int OUTPUT
AS
BEGIN
SET NOCOUNT ON;
SET @img_count=(Select count(img_id) from images);
SELECT img_name,img_path from images;
END
ANy suggestions would be greatly appreciated, Thankyou in Advance
Regards,
Judef

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Dugi SSCoach Points: 17998 More actions · Answer 1

Don't do double posts! :w00t:

The original is here :

Steve it should be closed!

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ok I am new to this site. Can you please solve my problem?

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dobinf (12/29/2008)
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Matt Miller (4) SSC Guru Points: 124210 More actions · Answer 4

ExecuteReader is a little funky when dealing with output parameters. The output parameters are available only AFTER the recordset is used and closed. From MSDN:

Using a DataReader to Process the RETURN Value and OUTPUT Parameters
This same query can be executed directly with the Command.ExecuteReader (or ExecuteNonQuery if you don't have a rowset to process), but there are several other steps you'll need to take to process the returned values. Remember, you'll have to complete processing for all rowsets before attempting to capture the Return value or OUTPUT parameters. The following code shows how to use the ExecuteReader and a loop to process the rowsets, and then capture the Return value and OUTPUT parameters. You'll find that OUTPUT parameters (even a lot of them) can be handled far faster than even a single row of data returned by a SELECT

You may be better off using a dataset instead - the output parameters handling is more straightforward.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms971497.aspx#gazoutas_topic4

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