#of rows updated

Is there a command that will tell me the number of rows that are updated in a statement. I would like to put this in an Stored Procedure and pass the #rows updated back out.you can just look at @.@.ROWCOUNT after you do a statment and it will tell you how many rows were affected by the last SQL statement.

i.e., SELECT @.@.ROWCOUNT

or better yet, put it into a local variable such as:

DECLARE @.RowCountToReturn int

SELECT * FROM dbo.MyTable
SET @.RowCountToReturn = @.@.ROWCOUNTKeep in mind that pretty much EVERY SQL statement changes the value of @.@.ROWCOUNT, so you need to save it off if you have any code that may change it before you return it to your calling procedure.