How To Send Mail Using SQL Server: Part 2

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There are the following three parts of this tutorial:

Introduction

This article explains how to select data from a table and bind that data to an email and send a mail using SQL Server 2008.

Step 1

Log in to SQL Server 2008 with a correct user name and password.

Step 2

Click on the database and click on New query.

In this example I have a student table named tblstudent and some test data in that table.

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[tblStudents](
[Id] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,
[StudentName] [varchar](50) NOT NULL,
[RollNo] [varchar](20) NOT NULL,
[Add] [varchar](50) NULL,
[MobileNo] [varchar](10) NOT NULL,
CONSTRAINT [PK_tblStudents] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED
(
[Id] ASC
)WITH (PAD_INDEX = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON) ON [PRIMARY]
) ON [PRIMARY]
GO

Step 3

Now I will select data from the student table data and bind that data to an email. The following tabular data should be in the mail.

student information

Step 4

To design the preceding table we need the following HTML table kind of structure.

<h3>Students Information</h3>
<table border="1">
<tr>
<th>
Roll No
</th>
<th>
Student Name
</th>
<th>
Address
</th>
<th>
Mobile No</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
1
</td>
<td>
Manish kumar
</td>
<td>
Hydrabad</td>
<td>
0000000000
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
2
</td>
<td>
Venkat</td>
<td>
Pune</td>
<td>
111111111
</td>
</tr>
</table>

Step 5

Now write the following query and bind that query to the msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail Stored Procedure.

DECLARE @TabulerData NVARCHAR(MAX)
DECLARE @TablrBodyData NVARCHAR(MAX)
SET @TabulerData = CAST(( SELECT [RollNo] AS 'td','',[StudentName] AS 'td','',
[Add] AS 'td','', [MobileNo] AS 'td'
FROM tblStudents FOR XML PATH('tr'), ELEMENTS ) AS NVARCHAR(MAX))
SET @TablrBodyData ='<html><body><H4>Students Information</H4>
<table border = 1>
<tr>
<th> Roll No </th> <th> Student Name </th> <th> Address </th> <th> Mobile No </th></tr>'
SET @TablrBodyData = @TablrBodyData + @TabulerData +'</table></body></html>'

Step 6

Now bind @TablrBodyData to the body of the msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail Stored Procedure.

EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail @profile_name='MyTestMail',
@recipients='[email protected]',
@subject='My Test Mail Service with student data.',
@body=@TablrBodyData,
@body_format ='HTML'

Output

Mail queued.

Check the email; it will show as follows.

test mail service

Summary

In this illustration you learned how to select data from a table and send that data to an email using SQL Server 2008. Please provide your valuable comments about this article.

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