diff --git a/jrunner/src/main/java/jrunner/jrunner.java b/jrunner/src/main/java/jrunner/jrunner.java
index 080a22a..aef92aa 100644
--- a/jrunner/src/main/java/jrunner/jrunner.java
+++ b/jrunner/src/main/java/jrunner/jrunner.java
@@ -288,8 +288,20 @@ public class jrunner {
             // those messages to tell a real failure from a working TRUNCATE,
             // which made a non-zero exit code impossible to adopt.
             boolean hasResultSet = stmt.execute(sq);
+            // A stored procedure may report update counts before opening its
+            // cursor, and /opt/sync uses CALL statements as migration sources
+            // (rlarp.QUOTE_REBUILD and friends). Walk past any update counts to
+            // the first real result set instead of concluding there is none —
+            // executeQuery() would simply have thrown here. The last count is
+            // retained so a plain DML statement can still report rows affected.
+            int updated = -1;
+            while (!hasResultSet) {
+                int uc = stmt.getUpdateCount();
+                if (uc == -1) break;   // no further results of any kind
+                updated = uc;
+                hasResultSet = stmt.getMoreResults();
+            }
             if (!hasResultSet) {
-                int updated = stmt.getUpdateCount();
                 if (!queryMode) {
                     System.out.println("------------no result set---------------------------------");
                     System.out.println("rows affected: " + updated);