Question

I have a query which I eventually got to work fine but what I really need is the results to be displayed using the SQL PRINT command. The reason for this is I am automating the results to be emailed, and if I can have them come out as printed text then I can just embed the results in the email using the tool we use here. Otherwise, the current results have to be attached as a file and I would prefer the printed text if possible.

I have tried to modify the query by adding DECLARE and PRINT but I am really confused and can’t figure it out. The query has 2 CTE’s in it pulling data from multiple databases. What it is doing is selecting all the sale numbers/ID’s from our SAP system for yesterday and comparing them with our the Sale numbers/ID’s from our POS system for yesterday to make sure every sale in our POS system is now in SAP. The query itself works fine.

How can I print the results of this query?

WITH CTE1 (SAP_SALE)
AS
(          
  select distinct convert(BIGINT,convert(varchar(15),WERKS)+(select RIGHT(convert(Varchar(20),BONNR),7)))
  as Branch_tx_no from [PDP].[pdp].[S120] WITH (NOLOCK)
  where SPTAG >= CAST(CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), GETDATE() -1, 101) AS DATETIME) AND
  SPTAG < CAST(CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), GETDATE(), 101) AS DATETIME)
),
CTE2 (AR_SALE)
AS
(
  select convert(varchar(15),branch_no)+convert(varchar(15),sale_tx_no)
  from [ARDB01].[PP_BODATA].[DBO].[sales_tx_hdr] WITH (NOLOCK)
  WHERE sale_date >= CAST(CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), GETDATE() -1, 101) AS DATETIME) AND
  sale_date < CAST(CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), GETDATE(), 101) AS DATETIME)
  and sale_type in ('C','L')
)
SELECT AR_SALE FROM CTE2 AS CTE2
  Left OUTER JOIN CTE1 AS CTE1
  ON CTE1.SAP_SALE = CTE2.AR_SALE
WHERE CTE1.SAP_SALE IS NULL
ORDER BY CTE2.AR_SALE

Answer 1

The easiest solution is to use a cursor and PRINT one row at a time. Or you could use XML-concatenation, if you do not have any special characters in the result:

DECLARE @txt NVARCHAR(MAX);


WITH CTE1 (SAP_SALE)
AS
(          
  select distinct convert(BIGINT,convert(varchar(15),WERKS)+(select RIGHT(convert(Varchar(20),BONNR),7)))
  as Branch_tx_no from [PDP].[pdp].[S120] WITH (NOLOCK)
  where SPTAG >= CAST(CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), GETDATE() -1, 101) AS DATETIME) AND
  SPTAG < CAST(CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), GETDATE(), 101) AS DATETIME)
),
CTE2 (AR_SALE)
AS
(
  select convert(varchar(15),branch_no)+convert(varchar(15),sale_tx_no)
  from [ARDB01].[PP_BODATA].[DBO].[sales_tx_hdr] WITH (NOLOCK)
  WHERE sale_date >= CAST(CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), GETDATE() -1, 101) AS DATETIME) AND
  sale_date < CAST(CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), GETDATE(), 101) AS DATETIME)
  and sale_type in ('C','L')
)
SELECT @txt = (
SELECT CHAR(13)+CHAR(10)+AR_SALE FROM CTE2 AS CTE2
  Left OUTER JOIN CTE1 AS CTE1
  ON CTE1.SAP_SALE = CTE2.AR_SALE
WHERE CTE1.SAP_SALE IS NULL
ORDER BY CTE2.AR_SALE
FOR XML PATH(''),TYPE
).value('.','NVARCHAR(MAX)');

PRINT @txt;