How can I get the return value from Sql Server system message?

Question

I am trying to verify the backup I have just done in c# using command against sql server Express

 string _commandText =  string.Format(\"RESTORE VERIFYONLY F         


        

Answer 1

Its pretty difficult to retrieve the ssms message to the front end application . However you can write the message into a text file and then read the data from the file .

declare @cmd varchar(1000)

SET @cmd = 'osql -S YourServer -E -d YourDatabase -q "RESTORE VERIFYONLY FROM   DISK=''c:\yourBackup.bkp''" -o c:\result.txt'

EXEC master.dbo.xp_cmdshell @cmd

You can execute the above sql statements from your application and then read the result from the result.txt file