title: "SQLNumParams | Microsoft Docs" ms.custom: "" ms.date: "03/14/2017" ms.prod: "sql" ms.prod_service: "database-engine, sql-database, sql-data-warehouse, pdw" ms.service: "" ms.component: "native-client-odbc-api" ms.reviewer: "" ms.suite: "sql" ms.technology:
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[!INCLUDEappliesto-ss-asdb-asdw-pdw-md] [!INCLUDESNAC_Deprecated]
Improvements in the database engine beginning with [!INCLUDEssSQL11] allow SQLNumParams to obtain more accurate descriptions of the expected results. These more accurate results may differ from the values returned by SQLNumParams in previous versions of [!INCLUDEssNoVersion].
For more information, see Metadata Discovery.