Stored Procedures: Output Parameters
Explore how to define and use output parameters in T-SQL stored procedures to return data to the caller. Learn the syntax for declaring output parameters, executing procedures with output arguments, and apply this knowledge through practical examples.
Stored procedures, unlike functions, do not have to return any data back to the caller. They only execute the code that they encompass. Nevertheless, it is possible to return a result back from stored procedures. We can mark a parameter of a stored procedure with the OUTPUT keyword so that the value of the parameter can be used in the context where the stored procedure is called. In other words, using output parameters is one of the ways of returning data from stored procedures.
Syntax
Output parameters are declared in the ...