Home Forums SQL Server 2008 T-SQL (SS2K8) sp_send_dbmail has formatting off on datetime when directing output to csv file RE: sp_send_dbmail has formatting off on datetime when directing output to csv file

  • April 1, 2014 at 4:26 pm

    #1702276

    I think your biggest problem is that you're using a .xls extension on the file. It's NOT an Excel file. Also, if someone opens even a text file in Excel, Excel has its own idea of how to format columns... especially dates.

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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