Passing arguments part 2

Okay, let me explain the situation more clearly. It seems we have a mix up, my fault.

Okay, we have an external program; let's call it ProgramA which will pass a few arguments into my VB exe;let's call it MyVBexe. AFter MyVBexe is done processing, it will pass back a parameter to ProgramA. So graphically it looks like:

ProgramA -> pass parameters into MyVBexe -> process parameters -> MyVBexe returns a parameter to ProgramA
->close MyVBexe

i hope this makes more sense, because I am complete lost in this matter. I know I can do it in C/C++, but I need to use SQL. sorry for the mixup

I am still mixed up sorry. SQL is a query language. You cannot use it to communicate to other processes.

Maybe you mean that a stored procedure in an SQL database needs to cimmunicate or something like that? What database are you using?

YOu mention that you could do it in C++. If so, how would you get your C++ program to communicate with the database procedure? I believe that if you can do it with C++ there will be a way to do it in VB.

Regards
Paul Lewis