with that in mind, here is how you would use xp_cmdshell to call the program and get it's results in a table...you'd then need to parse the results.
create table #Results (TheOutput varchar(1000))
insert into #Results (TheOutput)
exec master..xp_cmdshell 'echoid -d'
select * from #Results
Wow!! I wonder how many years away I am from that. It sure is one small step at a time. Thanks a lot.
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