Automate COM objects from within seven SQL Server stored procedures
SQL Server's T-SQL programming language provides powerful facilities for data storage and retrieval, but T-SQL is weak when it tries to interact with systems outside the database. You can overcome this limitation, however, by using SQL Server's built-in COM automation environment, which lets you automate COM objects from within stored procedures. SQL Server 7.0 and SQL Server 6.5 provide seven extended ...