>>I want to take what is being sent to the grid, or text in the results window via the PRINT command, and put it in a a table/cursor so I can move through it and do some processing on each row. How can I do that?
>
>I'm not sure what you want.
>If you want just to put results from a PRINT command to some table, the you could use Table variable to store messages there.
>
>DECLARE @Prt TABLE (Id int IDENTITY(1,1), Description varchar(8000))
>
>DECLARE @i int
>SET @i = 0
>WHILE @i < 500
> BEGIN
> print @i
> INSERT INTO @Prt (Description ) VALUES ('Main loop @i = '+CAST(@i as varchar(30)))
> SET @i = @i + 1
> END
>
>SELECT * FROM @Prt
>
I think that's what I want. I didn't know about the DECLARE TABLE.