classic asp ado to stored proc drops fields depending on select order

I have to support a classic asp system (grrr) where it is returning nulls from a stored proc depending on the final select order in the proc. I was managing to cope with this by just jiggling the select order until i got one that worked for every field... Unfortunately now it has decided to work differently on different machines.

fairly basic asp:

' ORDER ITEMS
sSQL = "ProcName " & Order_ID

Dim iRowCount : iRowCount = 0
set objConn = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
objConn.Open Application("ad开发者_JAVA百科min_ConnectionString") 

set rs = objConn.execute(sSQL)

if not rs.eof then
    ' Just doing this set thing to try and stop stupid ADO dropping fields !!
    ' The final select in the proc decides whether things will appear or disappear...
    set iQtyRequired = rs("QuantityRequired")

do until rs.eof 
   iQtyOutstanding  = iQtyRequired - iQtyFulfilled

SQL has a fair amount of processing WITH's, cursor and a final select:

SELECT  DispatchDate, ProposedDispatchQty, ...
FROM    @OrderItems     

If i change the order of the select, different fields will "disappear" from ado - they are still there in .net and sql management studio. I cant get any consistency as to which one causes it, seems to be many, i'll try 20 different combinations, get 20 different sets of blanks.

i guess ado is blowing up somewhere silently inside (date handling perhaps?). Anyone got any good suggestions for getting some consistency? (apart from rewriting it in c#)

Cheers in advance - Shane :)

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I've already faced that kind of issue in the past when working with ntext columns. I had to select the ntext column last and that would do the job. Changing your connection string can also help.

Check out this question, quite the same problem as yours : SQL Server text column affects results returned to classic ASP