The script assumes thet You use Windows Authentication otherwise You will have to modify connection string. And as it has been already mentioned in the description this is a dirty trick and it is not recomended to use in the production databases, however it may be found useful for personal purposes.
Of course if the procedure does not return any recordset You will receive an error message.
use AdventureWorks2000
go
if exists(select * from sysobjects where id = object_id('dbo.proc_simple') and type = 'P')
drop procedure dbo.proc_simple
go
create procedure dbo.proc_simple
as
begin
select LocationId, [Name], rowguid from dbo.Location
end
go
select * from openrowset('SQLOLEDB', 'Trusted_Connection=Yes;Server=(local);Database=AdventureWorks2000', 'exec dbo.proc_simple')
go 
2007-10-02 (first published: 2002-06-20)
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I have always read that 8060 bytes is the maximum size. This is stated over and over again in Books Online, the MS site and numerous other sites, including this one. However a post in our forum recently questioned this. I decided to verify the problem and do a little research.
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ne of the issues you face when building Web applications is handling the errors you encounter when interacting with a back-end database. I was recently working with someone to create a new Web site with SQL Server™, ActiveX® Data Objects (ADO), and ASP. Lots of little things came up that I thought were worth sharing with MIND readers, so I'll focus this column on what I learned from this experience and the solutions to many of the problems I faced.
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