Doh!  As soon as I read your comment, I'm smacking my hand against my head.  I think I need to go eat something and take a breather before I look...

Yeah, that code does work.  I know it does.  My question is why that works and the simple version without a temp table doesn't work.

What do you get when you...

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My setting is set to over 65,000 characters.

I did try your xml method and it truncated in exactly the same place.

Can you elaborate?

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David,

I understand the issues with SMTP servers and I would heavily pursue your line of thinking IF the emails had shown up in msdb.dbo.sysmail_allitems with any kind of status.   Or...

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David,

The emails are all internal.

Can you be more specific about what kind of SMTP error could cause DBMail to not log any errors?

Johan,

In my original description I outlined how I...

• This reply was modified 3 years, 4 months ago by  DBAless.

Thank you.  I see how my math went wrong now on the conversion to GB.

Also, I've realized my assumptions were off.  When I originally setup the tempdb into 8 files,...

For example, the MS site says you can run this

SELECT SUM(unallocated_extent_page_count) AS [free pages],

(SUM(unallocated_extent_page_count)*1.0/128) AS [free space in MB]

FROM tempdb.sys.dm_db_file_space_usage;

But I get these results which make even less sense

Free Pages...

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Yes, that's what I've seen on the internet.  But I don't believe I have that much space in reality.  To convert to GB you would divide by 256, right?

Yeah, I have several habits I'll have to adjust when we upgrade from SQL Server 2014.  Of course, the vendor application I'm "tweaking" has a ton of old code like...