Dbmail HTML body size limit

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Dbmail HTML body size limit

TryingToLearn

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November 4, 2015 at 9:01 am

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My error.....please disregard.
When sending an email in HTML format, shouldn't this allow for 2gb of data? Mine is getting truncated after 4000 characters.
@body NVARCHAR(MAX) = NULL,
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail
@recipients='someone@some.com',
@reply_to='someone'
@from_address='someone@here.com>',
@profile_name = 'profilename',
@body_format = 'HTML',
@body = 'lots of data'

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Lowell SSC Guru Points: 323504 More actions · Answer 1

body is defined as nvarchar(max), so it's likely that you are getting some implicit conversions to nvarchar(4000) when you are building your htmlbody.

can you show the code that builds that?

that's most likely where the issue is; i know for a fact i send regular emails with htmlized bodies that far exceed 12K in characters.

Lowell

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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286573 More actions · Answer 2

TryingToLearn (11/4/2015)
When sending an email in HTML format, shouldn't this allow for 2gb of data? Mine is getting truncated after 4000 characters.
@body NVARCHAR(MAX) = NULL,
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail
@recipients='someone@some.com',
@reply_to='someone'
@from_address='someone@here.com>',
@profile_name = 'profilename',
@body_format = 'HTML',
@body = 'lots of data'

Where are you viewing this to know it is getting truncated? If you are viewing the values in SSMS that is because SSMS will truncate long strings.

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