I've just found the answer.

In hhe call to srv_senddone you can set a flag SRV_DONE_COUNT that says there is a valid number in the count field. I got the developer...

I'm on sqlserver 7.

The command(s) that I am using are :

set nocount on

declare @value varchar(128)

set @value = 'some string'

exec master..xp_encrypt @value OUTPUT

The xproc xp_encrypt is calling a C dll that...