• to capture the results form a stored procedure, the table must exist, with all the columns defined;

    then you can do something like this:

    IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sysobjects WHERE id = OBJECT_ID(N'WHO_DATA') AND xtype in (N'U'))

    CREATE TABLE WHO_DATA (

    [WHORESULTSID] INT IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,

    [SPID] CHAR (5) NULL,

    [INSERTDT] DATETIME NULL DEFAULT(GETDATE()),

    [STATUS] VARCHAR(30) NULL,

    [LOGIN] VARCHAR(30) NULL,

    [HOSTNAME] VARCHAR(30) NULL,

    [BLKBY] VARCHAR(30) NULL,

    [DBNAME] VARCHAR(30) NULL,

    [COMMAND] VARCHAR(30) NULL,

    [CPUTIME] INT NULL,

    [DISKIO] INT NULL,

    [LASTBATCH] VARCHAR(30) NULL,

    [PROGRAMNAME] VARCHAR(200) NULL,

    [SPIDINT] INT NULL,

    [REQUESTID] INT NULL

    )

    --table exists, insert some data

    INSERT INTO WHO_DATA(SPID,Status,Login,HostName,BlkBy,DBName,Command,CPUTime,DiskIO,LastBatch,ProgramName,SPIDINT,REQUESTID)

    EXEC sp_who2

    there's a bit of a work around you can try by using openrowset:, it tends to be a LOT slower, but it works:

    --database name required

    SELECT *

    INTO #tmp

    FROM OPENROWSET( 'SQLNCLI',

    'Server=(local);Trusted_Connection=yes;',

    'SET FMTONLY OFF; SET NOCOUNT ON; exec master.sys.sp_who'

    )

    Lowell


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