Thanks for your reply, Matt.

It is disappointing, but I'm a bit mystified because I have a piece of 3rd party software that does exactly what I want. The only trouble is, it will not output in a form I can use, as I just want a text output that I can process.

The software is ADO.Net Express.

I'm not sure how to embed an image of the output in here.

But I can say that it will show the outputs of any my stored procedures, with data types, 100% accurate and quite effortlessly. It is fast enough for me to believe it isn't doing anything too fancy.

So it must be possible!