>Menachem,
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>Check SQLSMO for SQL server 2005 Message #1162881
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>>Yeah, I know. I am going to assume that the server is browseable and the documentation will just state that if you are installed 2k5 express on a server you have to make sure it is browseable. I need to enumerate the servers properly so the user can select which server they need to connect to.
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>>OSQL.EXE was one solution suggested in the past and that works. Only problem with that is:
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>>1) It is installed with a SQL Server component (and I do not think it is installed with the native client but rather the server)
>>2) Given 1), I doubt I can distribute OSQL.EXE with my app to do the test
>>3) OSQL runs in DOS so that would cause a DOS window to flash while it's doing its thing...
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Nope... doesn't work. Gives me the same results I got from the 2004 solution... Funny this is OSQL gives me what I want... I just wish there was a way to do that within VFP...