diff --git a/source/sqlsrv/stmt.cpp b/source/sqlsrv/stmt.cpp
index 3feb2c5b..07aea0d8 100644
--- a/source/sqlsrv/stmt.cpp
+++ b/source/sqlsrv/stmt.cpp
@@ -1018,15 +1018,6 @@ PHP_FUNCTION( sqlsrv_send_stream_data )
 
     try {
 
-        // Make sure that the result set is not null, i.e. SQLNumResultCols() does not
-        // return 0. Normally this error is handled in core_sqlsrv_fetch, but if the 
-        // user calls sqlsrv_next_result() before fetch() the error is never shown so 
-        // we handle it here.
-        SQLSMALLINT has_fields = core::SQLNumResultCols( stmt TSRMLS_CC );
-        CHECK_CUSTOM_ERROR( has_fields == 0, stmt, SQLSRV_ERROR_NO_FIELDS ) {
-            throw core::CoreException();
-        }
-
         // if everything was sent at execute time, just return that there is nothing more to send.
         if( stmt->send_streams_at_exec ) {
             RETURN_NULL();