SQL Mail

  • Due to Sorbanes Oxy (gov regulation) we had to lock down our servers which gave us developers not enough rights to carry out every day stuff. I need to have at leat execute rights(which I now do not have ) on the Master DB to send SQL mail with sp_send_cdosysmail, for use with Lotus Notes. Is there another way to acomplish (send mail) this without usng the master db's stored procedures? I still need to use Lotus Notes so Outlook would not be an option.

    Thanks

    Marty

  • sp_send_cdosysmail is not a standard SQL server object so it may be possible to have it in a user database. It depends what it calls in turn.

    I take it the server in question is production.

    So why, as a developer, are you connecting to a production server?

    It may be the politics of your shop but the developers here (I'm the DBA) have no access to production servers except as end users. And shall only over my dead body and the corpses of my fellow DBAs. And our manager's body. And so on and so forth.

    Can your task be scheduled within the SQL Server job system?

    Do you have DBAs who can do it?

    Why must developers do it?

  • Well, I was trying to think of a possible workaround myself, but the prev. poster is really asking all the right questions here.  

    You really need to think about the answers to those Q's before going any further....

    - j

  • I found a workaround for my problem and it works great.

    In case you needed answers to his questions:

    Can your task be scheduled within the SQL Server job system? NO

    Do you have DBAs who can do it?  NO

    Why must developers do it? We are the only ones who can.We have no DBA's

     

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