Question

I have what I thought was a simple question but havent been able to resolve it in months , so here it goes !!!

Environment : Microsoft SQL 2008

I have a qyery that runs every night and gives me a list of all orders that dont have an approval code:

Query :

Select OrderId, First , Last ,Email from Orders where Approval is Null

Results:

OrderID First Last Email

4565 Tom Cruise [e-mail]

3423 Jaime Fox [e-mail]

Thats fine becuase now i know which orders dont have an approval but what i want to do is for the query to atomatcally email them something like

Desired Result
Dear Tom ,

Your order does not have an approval code and will be cancelled within the next 48 Hours if the code is not entered.

* Desired Result**

At any given time i may have 30 of these orderd so the query needs to just run and generate an email to each person . if 1 person has multiple orders it is fine if they get an email for each order seperatly . Please Help!! and by help I mean please let me see sample code to how to achieve this since i dont know how to. Thank You

Answer 1

You can use the email capabilities in SQL Server for sending the emails.

Once you configure SQL Server (follow this link); you can simply go through each email in a loop, like so:

USE msdb
GO
EXEC sp_send_dbmail @profile_name='PinalProfile',
@recipients='[e-mail]',
@subject='Your Order',
@body='Hi there.'

Update

Here’s an example of how to iterate through the records:

declare @temp as table
(
Id int identity,
OrderId int, 
First varchar(255), 
Last varchar(255),
Email varchar(512)

)

insert into @temp
Select OrderId, First , Last ,Email from Orders where Approval is Null

declare @email varchar(512)
       , @index int=1 
       , @upper_bound int
       , @subject varchar(500)

select @upper_bound=max(Id) from @temp


while(@index<=@upper_bound)
BEGIN
select @email=email,@subject='Your order number '+OrderID from @temp where Id=@index

EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail @profile_name='profile',
@recipients=N@email,
@subject=@subject,
@body='Whatever you want to say here.'

select @index=@index+1

END

-- You are done