Counting the number of deleted rows in a SQL Server stored procedure

Question

In SQL Server 2005, is there a way of deleting rows and being told how many were actually deleted?

I could do a select count(*) with the s

Answer 1

Just do this:

SET NOCOUNT off ;
SELECT @p1 = @@ROWCOUNT

where p1 is the output parameter you set in the stored procedure. Hope it helps.