How to set a sqlcmd output to a batch variable?

Question

I\'m trying to set the output of a sqlcmd query to a variable in a batch file.

Here\'s my query:

sqlcmd -S  -d  -Q \"         


        

Answer 1

Try turning on NOCOUNT:

for /f %%a in ('sqlcmd -S <SERVER> -d <DATABASE> -Q "SET NOCOUNT ON; select max(Column1)+1 from Table1"') do set ColumnVar=%%a
echo %ColumnVar%
pause