How can I use sp_send_dbmail to send multiple queries?
I'm trying to send an email using sp_send_dbmail. I need it to send one query as an attachment and another as part of the body of the email. The problem is that sp_send_dbmail only has one @query parameter, and I can't see any way to add another one.
Is there any way to either a) add a second query (with all of the parameters attached to it) or b) execute the query into a variable and then add that to the body of my email?
I'm using sql-server 2005.
TIA!
Answer
Use the @query parameter of the stored procedure msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail for the attachment and use the @body parameter with a variable that contains the result of the other query.
The example code below creates a string from SQL Server job step history that contains HTML table elements used to send an email using the stored procedure msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail. You should be able to adapt it for your purposes.
DECLARE @cat varchar(MAX),
@email_id int
SELECT @cat = COALESCE(@cat + '', '')
+ '<tr><td>'
+ j.[name] + '</td><td>'
+ CAST(js.step_id AS varchar) + '</td><td>'
+ js.step_name + '</td><td>'
+ CONVERT(char(23), jsl.date_created, 121) + '</td><td>'
+ jsl.[log] + '</td></tr>'
FROM msdb.dbo.sysjobstepslogs jsl
JOIN msdb.dbo.sysjobsteps js ON jsl.step_uid = js.step_uid
JOIN msdb.dbo.sysjobs j ON js.job_id = j.job_id
SET @cat = '
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
td {
border: 1pt dotted #ddd;
}
#log_text {
width: 20em;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<table>
<colgroup>
<col />
<col />
<col />
<col />
<col id="log_text" />
</colgroup>
<thead>
<tr>
<th>Job</th><th>Step</th><th>Step name</th><th>Log created</th><th>Log text</th></tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
' + @cat + '
</tbody>
</table>
</body>
</html>'
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail
@profile_name = 'SQLServerDatabaseMailProfile',
@recipients = '[email protected]',
@subject = 'SQL Server Database Mail · Job step logs',
@body = @cat,
@body_format = 'HTML',
@mailitem_id = @email_id OUTPUT