How To Send Mail Using SQL Server: Part 2

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In this article, you will learn how to select data from a table and send that data to an email using SQL Server 2008.

This tutorial has three parts as follows:

Configure email profile and send test email using SQL Server
Select and send data in mail
Schedule daily mail from SQL Server

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

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.

SQL

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.

HTML

<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.

SQL

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.

SQL

EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail @profile_name='MyTestMail',  
@recipients='manishki@live.com',   
@subject='My Test Mail Service with student data.',  
@body=@TablrBodyData,   
@body_format ='HTML'

Output

Mail queued. Check the email; it will show as follows:

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.

License

This article, along with any associated source code and files, is licensed under The Code Project Open License (CPOL)

Written By

Manish kumar choudhary

Software Developer

India

Manish Kumar Choudhary is a passionate and pragmatic software engineer specializing in web application development with ASP.NET MVC, Web API, Entity Framework, NHibernet, Angular, Backbone, HTML5, and CSS. He started programming at the age of twelve on VB.Net and fell in love with it. His dream at the time was to become a software engineer so he pursues programming both academically and professionally. He has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Application and a Master of Science in Computer Application. He has over 3.5 years’ professional experience developing web applications. Outside the software world, he enjoys photography, swimming, cricket and football. Manish is based in Hyderabad, India.