Martijn Tonies wrote:

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>>>It might be me ... but why not have a "connect to server" piece and then
>>>use SQL to get your info from pseudo tables? Why XML?
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>>>
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>>The requests are open ended, the data isn't tabular, and doesn't lend
>>itself to querying. How do you express "restart server" in sql?
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>For example with a "system stored procedure".
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>sp_restartserver ('NOW')
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>

Restarting a server, maybe, though how it can report success is beyond
me. However, starting a server is a little difficult to do from a
stored procedure.



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