There are many different ways that you could approach this problem.
Just like any other function out there, you could create a return value that
specified whether or not a procedure or function successfully completed.
You could simply send back an empty resultset instead of actual data.
And so forth.
HTH
Rick Sawtell
MCT, MCSD, MCDBA
"Frazer" <Fr****@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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hi,
if my webmethod fails (eg database server is down) how do i send this
message back to the caller of the web method.
thanx