Problem with INSERT Trigger

[timothy.alvis]

It's not so much a problem, as I don't know how to get around this
issue. We have applications that rely on the return value of a stored
procedure. This stored procedure inserts a record into a table that has
a trigger. The trigger calls a couple of stored procedures itself.

Due to the trigger, we have a return value of 0 coming in ahead of the
return value for the stored procedure we call directly. I've tested
this in Query Analyzer as well, and the same behavior applies.

In case I didn't describe it clearly:

Call storedproc1

storedproc1 inserts a record into table1

table1 has an INSERT trigger

expected behavior is: storedproc1 returns value1 and value2

actual behavior is: storedproc1 returns 0, then returns value 1 and
value 2

[Erland Sommarskog]

(ti***********@gmail.com) writes:

It's not so much a problem, as I don't know how to get around this
issue. We have applications that rely on the return value of a stored
procedure. This stored procedure inserts a record into a table that has
a trigger. The trigger calls a couple of stored procedures itself.

Due to the trigger, we have a return value of 0 coming in ahead of the
return value for the stored procedure we call directly. I've tested
this in Query Analyzer as well, and the same behavior applies.

In case I didn't describe it clearly:

Call storedproc1

storedproc1 inserts a record into table1

table1 has an INSERT trigger

expected behavior is: storedproc1 returns value1 and value2

actual behavior is: storedproc1 returns 0, then returns value 1 and
value 2

Returns? This needs some clarification. A stored procedure can return
data in three different ways:
o Result set
o Output parameters
o Return value. as in EXEC @ret = some_sp

Which do you mean?

Overall, it would help if you posted the code of the procedure, so we know
what you are talking about. Please also include the output when run the
procedure in Query Analyzer.
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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, es****@sommarskog.se

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