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Re: `sqlcmd' withholding error messages?

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I wrote:

> Luuk:
>
> > -r[0 | 1]
> > Redirects the error message output to the screen
> > (stderr). If you do not specify a parameter or if you
> > specify 0, only error messages that have a severity
> > level of 11 or higher are redirected. If you specify 1,
> > all error message output including PRINT is redirected.
> > Has no effect if you use -o. By default, messages are
> > sent to stdout.
>
> Yes. I inovke `sqlcmd' not only with -r 0, but also with
> -b:
>
>    -b
>    Specifies that sqlcmd exits and returns a DOS ERRORLEVEL
>    value when an error occurs. The value that is returned to
>    the DOS ERRORLEVEL variable is 1 when the SQL Server error
>    message has a severity level greater than 10
>
> The invocation sqlcmd -r 0 -b should either succeed or
> print an error message in stderr. In my case, however, it
> failed but did not send anything to stderr.

To clarify -- my purpose is to cause `sqlcmd' to terminate
with non-zero error code and to send the output to STDERR in
on errors of severity 11 or highter, and to continue
exeuction and send output to STDOUT otherwise.  I believe my
invocation is should achieve that end, does it not?

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