Thank you much for the article. I appreciate everything listed - it is very helpful to have all that in one place.

In case this is of assistance to anyone,...

It turns out this worked: the developer took out capturing the return value from xp_cmdshell (e.g., removing @retval = xp_cmdshell... and instead just calling xp_cmdshell... ).

Thank you for the...

Ray Mond (9/17/2010)

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If it does that, it's probably using a callback filter e.g. here[/url]. In that case, it's...

TheSQLGuru (1/5/2010)

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Dan Provan (1/5/2010)

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Not sure if I'm a little late, and i ,must say that i only skimmed the post so if what I say has already been noted i...

Thank you for the article; very helpful.

Also a minor discrepancy:  In the introduction to Real World Examples it states "NB: All examples use a database...