>Can anyone tell me if it is possible to execute a COM object from within a stored procedure and have it retrieve an XML response from the COM object.
>My problem:
>I have a COM object that accepts XML input and creates a sales order in a Fox Pro DB. I want to call this object from a stored procedure and update a record in SQL Server 2000.
>
>Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>Theo
Check out
sp_OACreate, sp_OAMethod, sp_OAGet- and sp_OASetProperty, and OPENXML in the BOL. I have not done anything like this myself, but it looks like you can use sp_OAGetProperty to fetch the XML string, and OPENXML to shred it into variables.
Dan LeClair
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