[sql-server] Select columns from result set of stored procedure

This works for me: (i.e. I only need 2 columns of the 30+ returned by sp_help_job)

SELECT name, current_execution_status 
FROM OPENQUERY (MYSERVER, 
  'EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_help_job @job_name = ''My Job'', @job_aspect = ''JOB''');  

Before this would work, I needed to run this:

sp_serveroption 'MYSERVER', 'DATA ACCESS', TRUE;

....to update the sys.servers table. (i.e. Using a self-reference within OPENQUERY seems to be disabled by default.)

For my simple requirement, I ran into none of the problems described in the OPENQUERY section of Lance's excellent link.

Rossini, if you need to dynamically set those input parameters, then use of OPENQUERY becomes a little more fiddly:

DECLARE @innerSql varchar(1000);
DECLARE @outerSql varchar(1000);

-- Set up the original stored proc definition.
SET @innerSql = 
'EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_help_job @job_name = '''+@param1+''', @job_aspect = N'''+@param2+'''' ;

-- Handle quotes.
SET @innerSql = REPLACE(@innerSql, '''', '''''');

-- Set up the OPENQUERY definition.
SET @outerSql = 
'SELECT name, current_execution_status 
FROM OPENQUERY (MYSERVER, ''' + @innerSql + ''');';

-- Execute.
EXEC (@outerSql);

I'm not sure of the differences (if any) between using sp_serveroption to update the existing sys.servers self-reference directly, vs. using sp_addlinkedserver (as described in Lance's link) to create a duplicate/alias.

Note 1: I prefer OPENQUERY over OPENROWSET, given that OPENQUERY does not require the connection-string definition within the proc.

Note 2: Having said all this: normally I would just use INSERT ... EXEC :) Yes, it's 10 mins extra typing, but if I can help it, I prefer not to jigger around with:
(a) quotes within quotes within quotes, and
(b) sys tables, and/or sneaky self-referencing Linked Server setups (i.e. for these, I need to plead my case to our all-powerful DBAs :)

However in this instance, I couldn't use a INSERT ... EXEC construct, as sp_help_job is already using one. ("An INSERT EXEC statement cannot be nested.")

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