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  • Megha P (12/31/2012)


    Hi ,

    I have following code to execute. i want to have functionality to send email for the following query output in text attachment, please note that query output contains XML result for one column.

    It sends mail successfully but it is not properly formatted .Following is the code and Output

    Code:

    DECLARE @subj VARCHAR(100)

    DECLARE @cmd VARCHAR(5000)

    DECLARE @file VARCHAR(100)

    SET @cmd = 'SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON;

    WITH XMLNAMESPACES(DEFAULT ''http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2004/07/showplan''),

    CachedPlans

    (

    MissingIndexesPortion,

    QueryPlan,

    DatabaseName,stmt,DbId,

    ObjectName,

    --QueryText,

    RefCounts,

    UseCounts,

    SizeBytes,

    CacheObjectType,

    ObjectType

    ) AS (

    SELECT RelOp.op.query(''.'') AS MissingIndexesPortion,

    qp.query_plan AS QueryPlan,

    DB_NAME(qp.dbid),

    op.value(''(//MissingIndex/@Database)[1]'', ''VARCHAR(128)'') + ''.'' + op.value(''(//MissingIndex/@Schema)[1]'', ''VARCHAR(128)'') + ''.''

    + op.value(''(//MissingIndex/@Table)[1]'', ''VARCHAR(128)'') stmt,

    qp.dbid,

    OBJECT_NAME(qp.objectid, qp.dbid),

    cp.refcounts AS RefCounts,

    cp.usecounts AS UseCounts,

    cp.size_in_bytes AS SizeBytes,

    cp.cacheobjtype AS CacheObjectType,

    cp.objtype AS ObjectType

    FROM sys.dm_exec_cached_plans cp

    CROSS APPLY sys.Dm_exec_sql_text(cp.plan_handle) st

    CROSS APPLY sys.Dm_exec_query_plan(cp.plan_handle) qp

    CROSS APPLY qp.query_plan.nodes(''//MissingIndexes'') RelOp (op) )

    SELECT GETDATE(),

    MissingIndexesPortion,

    QueryPlan,

    ObjectName AS procedurename,

    stmt AS TableName,

    RefCounts,

    UseCounts,

    SizeBytes,

    ObjectType

    FROM CachedPlans

    WHERE CacheObjectType = ''Compiled Plan''

    ORDER BY UseCounts;'

    SET @file = 'Missing.txt'

    EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail

    @profile_name = 'SQL2005_Email_Profile',

    @recipients = 'AAA@mail.com',

    @subject = 'Missing Index',

    @query = @cmd,

    @attach_query_result_as_file = 1,

    @query_attachment_filename = @file,

    @query_result_separator = '; ',

    @query_result_no_padding = 1;

    Output in Txt file :

    ;MissingIndexesPortion;QueryPlan;procedurename;TableName;RefCounts;UseCounts;SizeBytes;ObjectType

    -;---------------------;---------;-------------;---------;---------;---------;---------;----------

    2012-12-31 13:04:13.913;<p1:MissingIndexes xmlns:p1="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2004/07/showplan"><p1:MissingIndexGroup Impact="44.7183"><p1:MissingIndex Database="[Enhance]" Schema="[dbo]" Table="[gfn_commentThreadIndexing]"><p1:ColumnGroup Us

    age="EQUALITY"><p1:Colum;<ShowPlanXML xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2004/07/showplan" Version="1.0" Build="9.00.5000.00"><BatchSequence><Batch><Statements><StmtSimple StatementText=" CREATE PROCEDURE Griffin_getAllCommentThreadFo

    rIndexing AS&#;Griffin_getAllCommentThreadForIndexing;[Enhance].[dbo].[gfn_commentThreadIndexing];2;2;131072;Proc

    (1 rows affected)

    Thanks,

    Megha

    Are you sure that your code runs successfully? I am pretty sure that you cannot include GO in a SQL batch sent to Database Mail.

    You said your output is in the wrong format...well what is the right format?

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