How to get return value for the number of rows affected by update command

Hi,

i read from help files that "For UPDATE, INSERT, and DELETE statements, the return value is the number of rows affected by the command. " Anyone know how to get the return value from the query below?

Below is the normal way i did in vb.net, but how to check for the return value. Please help.

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Public Sub CreateMySqlCommand(myExecuteQuery As String, myConnection As SqlConnection)
Dim myCommand As New SqlCommand(myExecuteQuery, myConnection)
myCommand.Connection.Open()
myCommand.ExecuteNonQuery()
myConnection.Close()
End Sub 'CreateMySqlCommand
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Thank you.you can add either of these statements to the SQL being called
[BOL} @.@.rowcount
[BOL] Rowcount_big

the difference is in the datatypes rowcount _big returns a bigint
and @.@.rowcount returns int

if you have over 2 billion rows user rowcount_big|||Hi Ruprect, thanks for your reply. My sql statement is a very simple insert query without using any parameters just like the one below:

sql = "INSERT INTO [Subscriber] ([SubID], [SubName], [SubEmail], [Status], [MailID], [SubscribeDate]) VALUES (SubID, SubName, SubEmail, 'Pending', MailID ,getDate())"

I'm unsure of how to include the " [BOL} @.@.rowcount ". Do you mean that i should add a parameter to return @.@.rowcount or there is other way to do it? I'm new to this, would you please give me an example.

Thanks for your time.|||@.@.Rowcount stored the number of records affected by the immediately prior statement. The value is lost as soon as another statement is executed, so you must either use it immediately or store it in a procedure variable:

declare @.RecordsAffected Int
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Update/Select/Delete some records from somewhere...
set @.RecordsAffected = @.@.RowCount

Look up @.@.Rowcount in Books Online for more details.|||thanks BLIND MAN
i didnt getthis until late
[BOL] stands for Books Online it's the sql server help file
i was giving you the article title

and since blindman got it exactly i've no need to reiterate
good luck.|||see if there is something like mycommand.rowsaffected property.|||Thanks Blindman and Thanks Ruprect. I'll study BOL ;) for details of @.@.rowcount.|||You should also follow ms_sql_dba's suggestion to see if there is a method to return the value via VB.

It might be more appropriate if you are going to use the value in your VB code.|||Hi ms_sql_dba, there isn't any rowsaffected property, however there is this UpdatedRowSource and others ..

Thanks for your suggestion, although i'm unsure of their usage, i'll look into it and see if i can find something which stores the value of number of rows affected!|||Sure Blindman, i'll study both ways and see which one is more applicable for my situation. You have a great day.|||Hi Everyone,

I managed to find another solution to my question. Just simply assign the value like this line:-

rowsAffected = myCommand.ExecuteNonQuery()|||see, it was simple!|||Yea. Lesson learned! Cheers!!!