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Need Help with sending email only when result fetches atleast one record

wweraw25

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December 19, 2016 at 9:41 am

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Hello Folks,
Lets say if I'm using the below to send email
DECLARE @bodyMsg nvarchar(max)
DECLARE @subject nvarchar(max)
DECLARE @tableHTML nvarchar(max)
SET @subject = 'Query Results in HTML with CSS'
SET @tableHTML =
N'<style type="text/css">
#box-table
{
font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", Sans-Serif;
font-size: 12px;
text-align: center;
border-collapse: collapse;
border-top: 7px solid #9baff1;
border-bottom: 7px solid #9baff1;
}
#box-table th
{
font-size: 13px;
font-weight: normal;
background: #b9c9fe;
border-right: 2px solid #9baff1;
border-left: 2px solid #9baff1;
border-bottom: 2px solid #9baff1;
color: #039;
}
#box-table td
{
border-right: 1px solid #aabcfe;
border-left: 1px solid #aabcfe;
border-bottom: 1px solid #aabcfe;
color: #669;
}
tr:nth-child(odd){ background-color:#eee; }
tr:nth-child(even){ background-color:#fff; }
</style>'+
N'<H3><font color="Red">All Rows From [AdventureWorks].[Sales].[SpecialOffer]</H3>' +
N'<table id="box-table" >' +
N'<tr><font color="Green"><th>SpecialOfferID</th>
<th>Description</th>
<th>Type</th>
<th>Category</th>
<th>StartDate</th>
<th>EndDate</th>
</tr>' +
CAST ( (
SELECT td = CAST([SpecialOfferID] AS VARCHAR(100)),'',
td = [Description],'',
td = [Type],'',
td = [Category] ,'',
td = CONVERT(VARCHAR(30),[StartDate],120) ,'',
td = CONVERT(VARCHAR(30),[EndDate],120)
FROM [AdventureWorks].[Sales].[SpecialOffer]
ORDER BY [SpecialOfferID]
FOR XML PATH('tr'), TYPE
) AS NVARCHAR(MAX) ) +
N'</table>'
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail @recipients='AnyMailYouWant@SqlIsCool.com',
@subject = @subject,
@body = @tableHTML,
@body_format = 'HTML' ;
I want this to be modified to
Send email only when the @tableHTML generates atleast one record otherwise no email should be sent.

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Lowell SSC Guru Points: 323518 More actions · Answer 1

i always insert into a temp table,and then check if exists:

SELECT *

INTO #temp

FROM [AdventureWorks].[Sales].[SpecialOffer]WHERE SomeFilterOrColumn =SomeValue

IF EXISTS(SELECT * FROM temp)

BEGIN

--all the email logic you had previously

--but FORXML select from temp table instead of the original table

END

Lowell

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wweraw25 SSC Eights! Points: 953 More actions · Answer 2

Can you be more specific on the FOR XML thing

Thanks in Advance

Lowell SSC Guru Points: 323518 More actions · Answer 3

here's an example of your code.

your example has no where statement. which doesn't make sense to me, you'd want to filter on a table,a nd send if there is data.

i highlighted the FROM and FOR XML portion of your code, but you have to scroll a bit to see it in the code window.

SELECT *

INTO #temp

FROM [AdventureWorks].[Sales].[SpecialOffer] --WHERE SomeFilterOrColumn =SomeValue

IF EXISTS(SELECT * FROM #temp)

BEGIN

DECLARE @bodyMsg nvarchar(max)

DECLARE @subject nvarchar(max)

DECLARE @tableHTML nvarchar(max)

SET @subject = 'Query Results in HTML with CSS'

SET @tableHTML =

N'<style type="text/css">

#box-table

{

font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", Sans-Serif;

font-size: 12px;

text-align: center;

border-collapse: collapse;

border-top: 7px solid #9baff1;

border-bottom: 7px solid #9baff1;

}

#box-table th

{

font-size: 13px;

font-weight: normal;

background: #b9c9fe;

border-right: 2px solid #9baff1;

border-left: 2px solid #9baff1;

border-bottom: 2px solid #9baff1;

color: #039;

}

#box-table td

{

border-right: 1px solid #aabcfe;

border-left: 1px solid #aabcfe;

border-bottom: 1px solid #aabcfe;

color: #669;

}

tr:nth-child(odd){ background-color:#eee; }

tr:nth-child(even){ background-color:#fff; }

</style>'+

N'<H3><font color="Red">All Rows From [AdventureWorks].[Sales].[SpecialOffer]</H3>' +

N'<table id="box-table" >' +

N'<tr><font color="Green"><th>SpecialOfferID</th>

<th>Description</th>

<th>Type</th>

<th>Category</th>

<th>StartDate</th>

<th>EndDate</th>

</tr>' +

CAST ( (

SELECT td = CAST([SpecialOfferID] AS VARCHAR(100)),'',

td = [Description],'',

td = [Type],'',

td = [Category] ,'',

td = CONVERT(VARCHAR(30),[StartDate],120) ,'',

td = CONVERT(VARCHAR(30),[EndDate],120)

[highlight="#ffff11"]FROM #temp

ORDER BY [SpecialOfferID]

FOR XML PATH('tr'), TYPE [/highlight]

) AS NVARCHAR(MAX) ) +

N'</table>'

EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail @recipients='AnyMailYouWant@SqlIsCool.com',

@subject = @subject,

@body = @tableHTML,

@body_format = 'HTML' ;

END

Lowell

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wweraw25 SSC Eights! Points: 953 More actions · Answer 4

Thank you very much for your input. It worked for now..