Question

I use the @query perimeter in sp_send_dbmail to send out an e-mail with a list of warnings (the warnings are returned by the @query perimeter). The @query perimeter is listed as text in the e-mail. All of the records returned from the @query perimeter and displayed in the e-mail has a line break between them. ie. If I have 4 records, I would have 8 lines because of line breaks.

How do I turn the line breaks off? I read the the msdn article for sp_send_dbmail, but it didn’t mention any attributes that could be changed that would affect the line breaks.

Code:

    BEGIN
    EXEC MSDB.DBO.sp_send_dbmail 
        @PROFILE_NAME = 'Alerts',
        @RECIPIENTS = @MAIL,
        @SUBJECT = @NEWSUBJECT,
        @BODY = @NEWBODY,
        @QUERY =
            'SET NOCOUNT ON
            DECLARE @HEXSTRING AS VARCHAR(100)
            SET @HEXSTRING = (SELECT HEXADECIMAL_STRING FROM mydb.dbo.statusupdates
                WHERE MACHINE_ID = ''1111'' AND DATEDIFF(MI, TIME_DATE_RECEIVED, GETDATE()) <= 60)
            SELECT [Warning_Description] FROM mydb.DBO.BINARYTOTABLE(mydb.DBO.HEXTOBINARY(@HEXSTRING)) AS ABB1
            JOIN mydb.DBO.WarningMessages  ON mydb.DBO.WarningMessages.[Bit_Offset] = ABB1.BITPLACE
            WHERE BITVALUE = 1 AND ALERT_LEVEL = ''WARNING''',
        @QUERY_RESULT_HEADER = 0,
        @ATTACH_QUERY_RESULT_AS_FILE = 0;
    END

Answer 1

I ended up putting everything into the @BODY parameter of SP_SEND_DBMAIL. Query results from a SELECT statement could be concatenated with regular text into a string and you can use HTML to format the resulting text.