In this article, I am going to explain how we can send an email from SQL Server express edition using a CLR stored procedure. First, let me explain about the CLR stored procedures.
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Database Mail configuration in SQL Server Express edition
January 21, 2020In this article, I am going to explain step by step process to perform Database Mail configuration in SQL Server Express edition using the T-SQL script. As we know, SQL Server Express edition does not provide the SQL Server Agent Services; hence we cannot perform Database Mail configuration or SQL Jobs or maintenance plans using SQL Server Management Studio. To configure the Database Mail feature in the SQL Server Express edition, we must use CLR integration or using stored procedures within the MSDB database.
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How to create an email alert in SQL Server Agent for job failures
November 28, 2018SQL Server Agent is a Microsoft Windows service which helps to execute, schedule and automatize T-SQL queries, Integration Service Package, SQL Server Analysis Service queries, executable programs, operating system, and PowerShell commands. These actions which are performed by SQL Server can be called by the SQL Server Agent. Maybe, we can liken SQL Server Agent to an alarm clock because the agent will execute the scheduled task when the time comes
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Considerations and concerns when setting up Database mail for SQL Server
August 31, 2018Database mail is widely used by DBAs and companies around the world and is one of the features of SQL Server that can be very important for startups. That is because it is a cheap solution for getting alerts from your SQL Server for potential hardware issues, early warning signs of corruption, along with potential resource constraints. However, it can be misused or pose potential security issues. Before we start, to my myself clear I am in favor of configuring Database mail for the DBA team when done properly. In the rest of the article, we will touch on some of the common mistakes people make with database mail and their SQL Servers. We will not discuss the setup of this feature as it was well documented by Bojan Petrovic on SQLShack.
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Troubleshooting Database Mail Failures
April 25, 2018Description
Database Mail is a convenient and easy way to send alerts, reports, or data from SQL Server. Failures are not obvious to the us though, and developing a process to monitor these failures alongside other failures will save immense headaches if anything ever goes wrong.
Database Mail: a (very) brief overview
Database Mail is a component of SQL Server that is available in every edition, except for Express. This feature is designed to be as simple as possible to enable, configure, and use.
Database Mail relies on SMTP to send emails via a specified email server to any number of recipients. When configuring, you provide a mail server, credentials (if needed), and then the service is ready to use. We’ll be focusing here on failure reporting and not configuration. If you need help setting up or configuring this feature, check out some of the references at the end of this article.
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How to configure Database Mail in SQL Server
November 22, 2017Database Mail, as you would expect from its name, is a solution for sending e-mail messages from the SQL Server Database Engine to users. Using Database Mail, database applications can send e-mail messages that can, for example, contain query results or simply alert a user about an event that occurred in the database.
The process of Database Mail configuration has three main steps. In order to complete this successfully, we need to:
- create a Database Mail account,
- create a Database Mail profile,
- and configure those two to work together
How to email SQL query results to your smartphone using the sp_send_dbmail stored procedure
July 24, 2017Introduction
Sometimes there are tasks that require too much time to finish during business hours and we need to leave the office with some still pending like the migration of data, backups or long running queries. In such cases, we would still want to receive an email in our smartphones to make sure that the job was completed successfully.
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PowerShell: Get a daily database status email
November 22, 2016The need for this script came about when I took a new job as a DBA. One of my responsibilities was to make sure all databases were available after the maintenance window which ran during the weekend. Rather than log into each database server and check that the databases were online, I had a script do the work for me and shoot me an email.
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Have your database server talk to you: Send emails directly from SQL Agent Jobs
November 7, 2016Recently, I was asked if I can write and run a specific query and have the results, (if any) emailed to a specific group of people every day? But only send the email if the query returns results. Who wants to open and empty email after all?
As with any DBA, we need a way to automate this process, as our time is valuable. Who wants to manually run a script, paste it into excel and then email it directly to users every morning?
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Format DBMail with HTML and CSS
June 23, 2016Background
In my organization, the developers send a lot of database generated emails for informational purposes to ensure that everything in the system is still working 100%.We can call them production messages. Normally the way the email is presented is not important as it is only meant for the developer to help with system health check, but every now and again a business user would ask for the report (which was never meant to be an actual report) and then we would include the business user in the distribution list for this email.
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