Query Result in HTML format

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Query Result in HTML format

pawana.paul

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August 28, 2012 at 11:57 am

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Hello All,
I am using the below script to generate report in HTML format for the query. If there is no result found for today, I am getting blank body.
Please let me know how to get columnName1... columnName4 if there are no results from the query.
Thanks in advance.
DECLARE @tableHTML NVARCHAR(MAX) ;
SET @tableHTML =
N'<H1>Heading</H1>' +
N'<table border="5">' +
N'<tr><th>ColumnName1</th><th>ColumnName2</th><th>ColumnName3</th>' +
N'<th>ColumnName4</th><th>ColumnName5</th></tr>' +
CAST ( ( SELECT td = ColumnName1, '',
td = ColumnName2, '',
td = ColumnName3, '',
td = ColumnName4, '',
td = ColumnName5, ''
FROM TABLE 1, TABLE 2, ...........
WHERE Condition
AND (
(DAY(GDM.DATE_CREATED) = DAY(GETDATE() ))
AND
(MONTH(GDM.DATE_CREATED) = MONTH(GETDATE() ) )
AND
(YEAR(GDM.DATE_CREATED) = YEAR(GETDATE() ))
)
FOR XML PATH('tr'), TYPE
) AS NVARCHAR(MAX) ) +
N'</table>' ;
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail @recipients="recipients@123.com",
@subject = 'Subject Line',
@body = @tableHTML,
@body_format = 'HTML' ;

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Luis Cazares SSC Guru Points: 183706 More actions · Answer 1

~~Divide and Conquer.~~

~~Divide your html into 3 parts: headers, rows and closure.~~

OK, I misread. All you have to do is add an ISNULL outside the CAST.

However, the original suggestion is a good practice that can give you code that's easier to test.

Luis C.
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Lowell SSC Guru Points: 323521 More actions · Answer 2

I always break it into peices;

the Header and Tail are appended to the body;

then i can test of the Body is an empty string, i can convert it to "No data found" or something.

Declare @HTMLBody varchar(max),

@TableHead varchar(max),

@TableTail varchar(max)

Set NoCount On;

Set @TableTail = '</table></body></html>';

Set @TableHead = '<html><head>' +

'<style>' +

'td {border: solid black 1px;padding-left:5px;padding-right:5px;padding-top:1px;padding-bottom:1px;font-size:11pt;} ' +

'</style>' +

'</head>' +

'<body><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0>' +

'<tr bgcolor=#FFEFD8><td align=center><b>Server Name</b></td>' +

'<td align=center><b>Product</b></td>' +

'<td align=center><b>Provider</b></td>' +

'<td align=center><b>Data Source</b></td>' +

'<td align=center><b>Is Linked?</b></td></tr>';

Select @HTMLBody = (Select Row_Number() Over(Order By is_linked, name) % 2 As [TRRow],

name As

,

product As

,

provider As

,

data_source As

,

is_linked As

From sys.servers

Order By is_linked, name

For XML raw('tr'), Elements)

IF @HTMLBody IS NULL OR @HTMLBody = ''

SET @HTMLBody = '<tr><td colspan="4">no data found</td></tr>'

Select @HTMLBody = @TableHead + @HTMLBody + @TableTail

Lowell

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