Can You Do a Select on the Results of a Stored Procedure in T-Sql

How to SELECT FROM stored procedure

You can use a User-defined function or a view instead of a procedure.

A procedure can return multiple result sets, each with its own schema. It's not suitable for using in a SELECT statement.

How to select from stored procedure output

You could store the result of the stored procedure into a temporary table (or a table variable, or even a physical table) and then query that one:

--drop table if exists #temp
create table #temp(name nvarchar(100), rows int, reserved nvarchar(100), data nvarchar(100), index_size nvarchar(100), unused nvarchar(100))

insert into #temp
exec sp_spaceused 'dummytable'

select [rows], [reserved] 
from #temp

SELECT against stored procedure SQL Server

Well, no. To select from a stored procedure you can do the following:

declare @t table (
    -- columns that are returned here
);

insert into @t(<column list here>)
    exec('storedp_Value');

If you are using the results from a stored procedure in this way and you wrote the stored procedure, seriously consider changing the code to be a view or user defined function. In many cases, you can replace such code with a simpler, better suited construct.

T-SQL get SELECTed value of stored procedure

there are three ways you can use: the RETURN value, and OUTPUT parameter and a result set

ALSO, watch out if you use the pattern: SELECT @Variable=column FROM table ...

if there are multiple rows returned from the query, your @Variable will only contain the value from the last row returned by the query.

RETURN VALUE
since your query returns an int field, at least based on how you named it. you can use this trick:

CREATE PROCEDURE GetMyInt
( @Param int)
AS
DECLARE @ReturnValue int

SELECT @ReturnValue=MyIntField FROM MyTable WHERE MyPrimaryKeyField = @Param
RETURN @ReturnValue
GO

and now call your procedure like:

DECLARE @SelectedValue int
       ,@Param         int
SET @Param=1
EXEC @SelectedValue = GetMyInt @Param
PRINT @SelectedValue

this will only work for INTs, because RETURN can only return a single int value and nulls are converted to a zero.

OUTPUT PARAMETER
you can use an output parameter:

CREATE PROCEDURE GetMyInt
( @Param     int
 ,@OutValue  int OUTPUT)
AS
SELECT @OutValue=MyIntField FROM MyTable WHERE MyPrimaryKeyField = @Param
RETURN 0
GO

and now call your procedure like:

DECLARE @SelectedValue int
       ,@Param         int
SET @Param=1
EXEC GetMyInt @Param, @SelectedValue OUTPUT
PRINT @SelectedValue 

Output parameters can only return one value, but can be any data type

RESULT SET
for a result set make the procedure like:

CREATE PROCEDURE GetMyInt
( @Param     int)
AS
SELECT MyIntField FROM MyTable WHERE MyPrimaryKeyField = @Param
RETURN 0
GO

use it like:

DECLARE @ResultSet table (SelectedValue int)
DECLARE @Param int
SET @Param=1
INSERT INTO @ResultSet (SelectedValue)
    EXEC GetMyInt @Param
SELECT * FROM @ResultSet 

result sets can have many rows and many columns of any data type

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